Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
My website bulletin board is the place I interact with my readers. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden. — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer Copy Share Image
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd. — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.” — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books. — Mason Cooley 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
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
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
“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
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
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
It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
