In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
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I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and… — Mina P. Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of… — John Green Copy Share Image
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
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TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors,… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
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When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I… — Robert Cormier 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
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
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If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience! — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies. — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction,… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
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