'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
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By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“I’d always been a reader and I read a lot, usually sticking to books with some sort of romantic theme and a… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots.… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which… — George Steiner 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
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind… — John Dee Copy Share Image
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J.… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
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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
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only… — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Copy Share Image
These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
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In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
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There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is… — Polybius Copy Share Image
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