While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that what my style of writing is, is an attempt not so much to judge the characters that… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
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Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The violence in the Executioner books is merely stage-dressing for dramatizing the commitment and dedication Bolan has to his ideals and the… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
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It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why… — Orson Scott Card 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
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The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
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