“I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in… — LouAnne Johnson Copy Share Image
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader… — William Least Heat-Moon 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
Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the… — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. — Pierre Salinger Copy Share Image
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in… — Louis Auchincloss 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
Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of… — Michele Bardsley Copy Share Image
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Eva Stachniak has given readers a thrilling glimpse into the scandals and secrets at the heart of the Russian Imperial court. With… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself. — J. Milton Hayes Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and… — Julia Quinn 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
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust. — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy. — Anita Nair Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky that I started out as a reader of the comic book and a viewer of the show. And I… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
