You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Mirror the reader to himself and then show him afterward how your product fits his needs. — Raymond Rubicam Copy Share Image
“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa. — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the… — John Green Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure… — Matt Wagner Copy Share Image
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person,… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In Lords of Rainbow I start out by taking away color from the world, and in the process show color's vital place… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“I am a passionate reader. New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest. — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion… — Phillip Lopate 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
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
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
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
