One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate. — Alonso Duralde Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You have a very open relationship with your fans." "Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Copy Share Image
As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written,… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when… — Horst Faas Copy Share Image
History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong,… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader. -Suzanne Steele” — Suzanne Steele Copy Share Image
Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem. — Rex Murphy Copy Share Image
Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers. — Alan Bold Copy Share Image
I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed. — Lisa Morton Copy Share Image
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
“A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work. — Daniel J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
