Ability Quote by Rick Remender

I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

— Joseph Boyden

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack.…

— John Connolly

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner.…

— Karen Russell

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

— Ashley Zukerman

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to…

— S. E. Hinton

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because…

— Mohsin Hamid

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