I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me.… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away. — Mary Grandpre Copy Share Image
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader. — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom.… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take… — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
I shall live forever. And I don't mean in a metaphorical sense. I don't mean I'll live forever in the hearts and… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
