Dangerous Quote by Michael Winter

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

I feel like if you aren't honest and if you don't let go and ease up off of the narrator, then the story doesn't…

— Jesmyn Ward

It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure readers into…

— Kevin Barry

I didn't want to tell my story through my words in someone else's voice.

— Saint Jhn

I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.

— Marie Lu

“I didn’t read to escape. I didn’t even read to be entertained. It was more elemental, more essential than that. I read because imagination…

— Katie Ray

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

— Anonymous

“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness creeps into…

— Harry Mazer

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of…

— David Foster Wallace

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying…

— Holly Valance

I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.

— Elmore Leonard