Best Quote by Kameron Hurley

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

— Anna Quindlen

“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best…

— Azar Nafisi

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sometimes, I like to imagine the perfect reader - the reader who not just understands what I am about, but soaks up every word…

— Paul Lynch

One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than,…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew…

— Peter De Vries

“As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and keep an…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

— Sarah Mlynowski

“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual books everyone's…

— Nova Ren Suma