O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying. — Mark Bernstein Copy Share Image
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new. — Mathias Dopfner Copy Share Image
Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story.… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research… — David Liss Copy Share Image
A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It is that the Mail constantly dares to stand up to the liberal-left consensus that dominates so many areas of British life… — Paul Dacre Copy Share Image
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought:… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Thanks to music I have found a deeper connection to an otherwise elusive God. Thru music I get to commune directly, and… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I met Shannon Hale through some friends and family. I was interested in her book called Princess Academy, which is just a… — Jerusha Hess Copy Share Image
I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one. — Judith Rascoe Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form. — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man? — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
