Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader....Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I believe that any attempt on the part of a libertarian communist society to abridge the rights of a community - for… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I am called to listen to the sound of my own heart -- to write the story within myself that demands to… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold… — Emily Rodda Copy Share Image
I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins;… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
