The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for… — Angeles Mastretta Copy Share Image
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of… — Barbara Woodhouse Copy Share Image
There's a huge and hungry market for the books on style and fashion in Russia, though the books should be done in… — Alexander Vassiliev Copy Share Image
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a… — Uma Krishnaswami Copy Share Image
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We didn't want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games]… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
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