1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I'm frankly scared to. I figured out a long… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
I was really inspired by seeing self published zines and mini-comics: seeing someone else make work that was either really personal, or… — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
“The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless,… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer Copy Share Image
Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible. — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
"Unputdownable" is, I suppose, something we all dream of, maybe without knowing it. I realized, some time ago, that a novel can… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to… — Dean Spade 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
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.… — Polybius Copy Share Image
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
