Books Quote by Evie Wyld

“Child, unless you are opening a dictionary, you start at the book's opening page and you read the story through. If it's terribly dreadful,…

— Camron Wright

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

— Paul McCartney

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too…

— David Shields

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love…

— Eleanor Catton

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

— Tom Wolfe

I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening…

— David Malouf

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

— Chloe Benjamin

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to…

— Rick Remender

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to…

— David Morrell