A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
My stories are known for featuring fun, fearless Cosmopolitan-type heroines as well as delicious, dangerous heroes synonymous with Harlequin. Afterburn and Aftershock… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue,… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
There's a huge and hungry market for the books on style and fashion in Russia, though the books should be done in… — Alexander Vassiliev Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of… — Barbara Woodhouse Copy Share Image
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for… — Angeles Mastretta Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties… — Katharine Weber Copy Share Image
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a… — Uma Krishnaswami Copy Share Image
We didn't want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games]… — Nina Jacobson 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
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical:… — M. R. James Copy Share Image
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the… — Felix J Palma Copy Share Image
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported… — Autumn Reeser Copy Share Image
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