Book Quote by Mark Twain

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Raoul Vaneigem

“The Book of the Order lay open on his desk, the pages curling up from a spine stitched to last.”

— Hugh Howey

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

— Mark Twain

The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who…

— George Saunders

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those…

— Paulo Freire

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or…

— Albert Goldbarth

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must…

— David Brin

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get…

— Jim Cummings

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett