Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading… — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The start of a new novel carried with it a sense of occasion, and the alphabets in Luna’s mind started to shuffle… — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For me, the favourite chapters have always been the last chapters in the books. I knew exactly how each book would end… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers'… — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader,… — Richard Howard Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come off like, 'I have… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers… — Roger Mudd Copy Share Image
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If… — Steve Hayden Copy Share Image
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible… — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
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