Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only… — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Copy Share Image
These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own… — John le Carre 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
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In… — William James Copy Share Image
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical:… — M. R. James 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
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the… — Felix J Palma Copy Share Image
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may… — Margaret Carlson Copy Share Image
When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported… — Autumn Reeser Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Thankfully, readers send a lot of stuff. They see stories in their local newspaper. Or friends of mine email me, what they… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
