An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands,… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,… — James Emanuel Copy Share Image
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There are so many things hinted at that will be fun to reveal in depth. For years, fans have made it abundantly… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq.… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped… — Robert Kirkman 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
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My normal life is, I love to travel and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology,… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert,… — Michael Pollan 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
Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
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My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out… — Lancelot Law Whyte Copy Share Image
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