Bigs Quote by Anne Lamott

“Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding,…

— Richard Mitchell

“Beach reading: Planning on reading, but failing relentlessly due to the heart-stirring view.”

— Malak El Halabi

As a reader, I do not like to have everything handed to me. Because after a while it gets formulaic and I'm thinking, "If…

— John Edgar Wideman

“It's difficult to teach how to write novels, but teaching swimming is just as hard.”

— Haruki Murakami

My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

— Jack Vance

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

— Nicholas Sparks

“What does reading do, You can learn almost everything from reading, But I read too, So you must know something, Now I'm not so…

— Jose Saramago

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

— Mary Oliver

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.

— Heidi Roizen