Battle Quote by Edward Gibbon

“Though recognition's been delayed by its circuitous construction, now the pattern, long concealed, emerges into view. Is it not fine? Is it not simple,…

— Alan Moore

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write. The regard of the…

— Samuel Johnson

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

— Lois Lowry

Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable

— S. R. Ranganathan

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of…

— Sara Zarr

I think once you do the unexpected, and you take the viewers to a position of discomfort about being able to rely on characters…

— Jed Mercurio

The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

— Myla Goldberg

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium…

— Thomas Jefferson

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

— Nelson Algren

Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to…

— Samuel Johnson

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes…

— Donald Miller