Ask Quote by Lois Tilton

One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope…

— Lois Lowry

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"

— Marianne Williamson

I’m reading! I don’t want to be disturbed!

— Italo Calvino

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them…

— Aaron Belz

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

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as…

— Mark Twain

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both,…

— Linda Sue Park

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears…

— Martha Beck

“I feel these forbidden thoughts creep in sometimes without warning. Slow thoughts that always start quietly, like whispers you're not even sure you're hearing.…

— Amber Smith

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then…

— Alan Moore

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

— Asghar Farhadi