The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd… — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless, — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him. — Richard Usborne Copy Share Image
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. — Henry James 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
It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong,… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of… — John Noble Copy Share Image
Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to… — Tony Auth Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco 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
Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father.… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing." — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue. — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
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