In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers. — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I could tell you were a reader when I first saw you. You have that dreamy look in your eye, like you're… — Bethany Hagen Copy Share Image
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt… — Lubos Motl Copy Share Image
Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I hope the reader's sense that I am deeply empathetic with the pain of being in a desperate marriage, but I also… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader.… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination,… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
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