The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time.… — Susan Wiggs 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
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded.… — Allan Stratton Copy Share Image
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that,… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Finally, I owe a debt to all the writers who've worked in the Star Wars universe to date - and to the… — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
“Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
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I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
As Elder George F. Richards, President of the Council of the Twelve, said in a conference address in April 1947, 'when we… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
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If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to. — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
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When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
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