I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols.… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read. — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live:… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader… — Walter Wangerin Copy Share Image
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing. — Sergei Dovlatov Copy Share Image
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted. — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The… — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size.… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this… — Henrietta Rose-Innes Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
