Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young… — Scott O'Dell Copy Share Image
At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing... — David Weigel Copy Share Image
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor… — Horace Copy Share Image
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... . Whether it's a politics page and… — Katharine Weymouth Copy Share Image
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best… — Peter King Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he… — John Green Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories.… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out… — Lancelot Law Whyte Copy Share Image
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have deliberated carefully about which of the terms that are unfamiliar to many of my readers I wanted to take time… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
