I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take… — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader. — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly -… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it.… — Matthew D. Forgenti Copy Share Image