Books Quote by Jonathan Evison Download Open image “Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.” — Jonathan Evison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Credit Enough Fiction Give Many Reader Too Writers Writing
The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“A man’s destiny is not in the eyes of others. It’s in his own. And that, my young friend, is as good as any… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“... when it seemed at every turn that the winds of fate had blown our lives afoul, financially, emotionally, or idealistically. Look at all… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“He didn't look back, the cold-blooded little prick. That's when I realized what I should have realized years ago: that there were people in… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
