Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
My favorite group growing up was 'The Hobbit.' It was the first book I actually finished. One of those adventure things that… — Luke Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late. — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers. — Kirby Dick Copy Share Image
I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl? The answer to that question, reader, as you well know,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book... — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them,… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own. — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands,… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read the books, because unfortunately,… — Cassi Thomson Copy Share Image
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader,… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own. — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into. — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized… — Dale Purves Copy Share Image
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