There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading. — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world. — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the… — Michael Mewshaw Copy Share Image
Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
Writers are voracious readers. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing… — William Francis Henry King Copy Share Image
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“It ain't just about writing on some documents, author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader. — Barry Lane Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions. — Lynsey Addario Copy Share Image
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
