A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
I love putting two things next to each other that don't necessarily belong, because then there's sort of a third atmosphere, a… — Evie Wyld 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
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I am sometimes referred to as Excuse Me in an annoyed tone of voice, because apparently I am in the way. I… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... — William Petersen Copy Share Image
Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.” — Y.S. Lee Copy Share Image
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not. — Ajith Kumar Copy Share Image
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
