Books Quote by Craig Lancaster

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts...

— Mark Vonnegut

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common…

— Dan Simmons

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common…

— Dan Simmons

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story…

— Harlan Ellison

“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and…

— Virginia Woolf

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that…

— Anonymous

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

— Sinclair Lewis

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and…

— Adam Haslett

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“[I]ndividual readers may conceivably choose (or be led) to regard a given text as literary in cases where such a response is not shared…

— Patrick O'Neill