I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. — Dorothy Garlock Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any… — Hannah Howell Copy Share Image
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I shall live forever. And I don't mean in a metaphorical sense. I don't mean I'll live forever in the hearts and… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was a comic… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good… — Avi Copy Share Image
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English. — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect… — David Low Copy Share Image
The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
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