Reader Quotes

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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came… — Madhur Bhandarkar
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a… — Athol Fugard
When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these… — Jessica Valenti
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. — Italo Calvino
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with… — Paul Theroux
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense,… — Paul Theroux
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who… — Terry Pratchett
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor… — Ian Frazier
I am an avid reader. — June Squibb
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader. — Dana Goodyear
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class. — Matt de la Pena
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost -… — David Wroblewski
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. — Barbara W. Tuchman
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and… — Neil Cross
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye… — Paulo Coelho
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture,… — Leslie Cockburn
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the… — Charles Palliser
My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity. — Thomas Steinbeck
The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my… — Dinaw Mengestu
Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a… — Jonathan Evison

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