As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden. — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people… — Simon Schama 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
There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
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