You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television… — John Green Copy Share Image
I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
You can't have a novel without real, believable people, and once you get into either too theoretical a novel or too philosophical… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Just enough of that to be able to give the reader a sense of skepticism that all - it seemed like all… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Yoshihiro Togashi here. I'm back doing a weekly serial, and here I am publishing my first volume already. Thanks to all my… — Yoshihiro Togashi Copy Share Image
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in… — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and… — Gayle Pemberton Copy Share Image
It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky… — Gayle Brandeis Copy Share Image
I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Philosophy treats of physics where a more careful knowledge is required because the problems which come under this head are numerous... So… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
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