It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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
These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention. — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra’s Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to… — Laurie Faria Stolarz Copy Share Image
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader. — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the… — R. K. Milholland 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
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
