I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle… — Ray Bradbury 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
There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've… — Del Howison Copy Share Image
“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 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
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me;… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It starts with the writing. We have to think of all these characters - we have to treat them all equally. We… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
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