The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story -… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.” — Kevin Smokler Copy Share Image
My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one… — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers)… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me. — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but… — Naomi Benaron Copy Share Image
Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“When I read, I read desperately because I was desperate — desperate to exchange my own anxious thoughts for the calming thoughts… — Sean Norris Copy Share Image
The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable… — Joel McIver Copy Share Image
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
