The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore. — Ethel Smyth 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 go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers. — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies. — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar. — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
The holy men and women, whose lives are told throughout this book, witness to the fact that the word of God is… — Stephen J. Binz Copy Share Image
For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
There are people who specialise in lettering, and I've had my hand lettering made into a digital font. I picked up a… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of… — Mark Twain 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
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
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