Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
You could move.' ---"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and… — Abigail Van Buren 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 have enormous respect for the reader. They are able to take symbols from a page that an author has invented, and… — Lynette Willows Copy Share Image
There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader…Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading,… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing.… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
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I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
![“[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work will never be anymore essentially clear and deep and honest than he himself is, and he will be judged finally not for how many copies his books have sold, but for what…” quote by Lawrence Clark Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c72/lawrence-clark-powell-27650_book_a-writer-must-try-to-think-clearly-to-fe_1486016.jpg)
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