I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
There is nothing like Integral Dreaming in the literature. This is an ambitious undertaking and its readers will gain an in-depth understanding… — Stanley Krippner Copy Share Image
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine,… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre… — Michael Chabon 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
If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession. — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a… — Cory Doctorow 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
The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Anything less than total candor was bullshit. I owed that to my readers, I owed that to myself, and I owed that… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
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![“No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous…” quote by Augusten Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eaf/augusten-burroughs-603_books_no-matter-what-i-ve-written-someone-some_2635472.jpg)
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