Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

I like writing teen characters because theyâ€™re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context… — Allan Stratton
Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili. A close reading… — Richard Bushman
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief… — Brian Evenson
Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon. Put this trilogy… — Robert E. Vardeman
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie… — Wayne Thomas Batson
Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work, but Peterson pulls… — Wayne Thomas Batson
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a… — Sol Stein
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement… — Edith Grossman
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt… — Jennifer Armstrong
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. — Steven Spielberg
My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word. — Miranda Hart
I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new… — Robert Kirkman
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out… — Harold Bloom
An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is… — Steven Berkoff
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private. — Wallace Stegner
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. — Kurt Vonnegut
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. — Stendhal
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike? — Ian Mcewan

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