At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming. — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers. — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic…Authors… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because… — John Green Copy Share Image
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction,… — Samuel Hynes Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image