About Quote by Karen Russell

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

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

I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily…

— Avi

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we…

— Joseph Brodsky

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

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

— Brian Lumley

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

— Kevin Wilson

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers…

— Jeffery Deaver

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

— Michael Connelly

I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a…

— Karen Marie Moning

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

— Avi

I've never thought that it made sense to put something out that I didn't actually find really fun to read. Or, if not "fun,"…

— Lorin Stein