Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life… — John Updike Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
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If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after;… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my… — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. It enables me to talk to readers from all over the world, but it also… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and… — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but… — Naomi Benaron Copy Share Image
Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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