Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Once the reader firmly grasps the truth of human exceptionalism under our Creator God, then the answers to confusing cultural issues begin… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the… — Jane Cleland Copy Share Image
A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have… — Garrison Keillor 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
I seem to have three categories of readers. The first is nonbelievers who are glad that I am reading the Bible so… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to… — Tony Auth Copy Share Image
This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“What reader or dreamer doesn’t imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky that I started out as a reader of the comic book and a viewer of the show. And I… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft Copy Share Image
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new… — Elizabeth Strout 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 wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
