There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which,… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me),… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary,… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal.… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism,… — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
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