Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into… — James Oliver Curwood Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them.… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky'… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
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“I drive my husband crazy because I don’t browse books—I buy books. And he’s always giving me these ultimatums like, ‘If you… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something… — John Caples Copy Share Image
While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
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