Book Quote by Fay Weldon

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

— Po Bronson

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great…

— E. B. White

“All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is…

— Uma Nnenna

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader doesn't get…

— Ernest Hemingway

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“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

“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich