I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
So, what we do in Love Dare for Parents is walk through the principles that help you win the hearts of your… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?” — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now. — Hilde Domin Copy Share Image
It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story. — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book... — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
