However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn to believe,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's… — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
Whatever I've worked on, I've always tried to make my writing personal. I think that's what makes my books somewhat different from… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The start of a new novel carried with it a sense of occasion, and the alphabets in Luna’s mind started to shuffle… — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
I have a very positive outlook on things. It's hard to predict how actual books are going to do but I'm not… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to… — Del Quentin Wilber Copy Share Image
Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions… — Warren Bennis Copy Share Image
With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
“The greatest skill that an author could possess, she thought, was the ability to make a reader see a book as his… — Rakesh Satyal Copy Share Image
It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
“Zaid's finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that "the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“I OF THE HURRICANE is charming! Reads smoothly and the dog lover in me is hooked. The surprises keep coming, right to… — Amy Hest Copy Share Image
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight.… — Richard Roeper Copy Share Image
If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden… — Deborah Ellis Copy Share Image
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.'… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees… — John Green Copy Share Image
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
