Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. — Anonymous 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 both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
You have to take pains in a memoir not to hang on the reader's arm, like a drunk, and say, 'And then… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism,… — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading… — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds. — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. — Avi Arad Copy Share Image
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
