We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
“He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The thing that makes stories memorable is the experiences they impart onto the readership and the emotions that they make those readers… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his… — David Scheier Copy Share Image
I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience,… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors… — John Updike Copy Share Image
While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring!… — Jane Cleland Copy Share Image
Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've… — Del Howison Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have… — Dani Harper Copy Share Image
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For… — James Jones Copy Share Image
If there is an amateur reader still left in the world—or anybody who just reads and runs—I ask him or her, with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
