MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it,… — Peter James Copy Share Image
I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike.… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1)… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
“Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
I knew I had found my life's passion after writing my first column for The Washington Post. The response was like nothing… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new. — Mathias Dopfner Copy Share Image
It never seems to occur to anyone that each reader is different, and that even those who might be said to resemble… — John Ashbery 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
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
One of the things I love most about second person is that it reminds the reader that they are reading a text.… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history. — David Mandel Copy Share Image
The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots.… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment… — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a lightheartedness to the subject, in… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I… — Maggie Shayne Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader. — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
