In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak. — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few… — David L. Katz Copy Share Image
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this article we begin to address the subject of vaccinosis, the general name for chronic dis-ease caused by vaccines. For some… — Richard Pitcairn Copy Share Image
Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a… — Nicola Haken Copy Share Image
A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
