Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
“A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to write the great American novel, win a Pulitzer or teach history. I write to entertain my readers. — Dorothy Garlock Copy Share Image
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early… — Grace Lin Copy Share Image
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject… — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded.… — Allan Stratton Copy Share Image
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The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just enough of that to be able to give the reader a sense of skepticism that all - it seemed like all… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect… — David Low Copy Share Image
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English. — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness. — Alfred Nobel 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
Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers. — Rita Dove 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
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
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