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
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island... — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. — Anonymous 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
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 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
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
People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra’s Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to… — Laurie Faria Stolarz Copy Share Image
“When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves… — David Farland Copy Share Image
You sing about the things you're influenced by. So we've been big into sci-fi since we were kids, things like Star Trek… — Dino Cazares Copy Share Image
As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader… — Stephanie Strickland 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
“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.” — Gabrielle Dubois 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
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
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
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
Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn 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
The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see. — Maureen Johnson 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
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I… — Michael Pollan 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
My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
