Books Quote by Umberto Eco

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things…

— Andy Rooney

I have learned that nothing gets readers so fired up as saying something everyone knows is true.

— Hope Jahren

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we…

— Thomas Pynchon

People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people…

— Neil Postman

“I remember a lecture from one of my lit classes about a theory called "Reader Response", which basically says: More often than not, it's…

— Kelly Corrigan

People read with their ears, whether they know it or not,

— William Zinsser

Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out…

— John Caples

Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all.

— Peter Handke

“Prior knowledge is vital to comprehension because writers omit information.”

— Terry Marselle

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of…

— Martin Amis

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them…

— Virginia Hamilton

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by…

— Vincent Van Gogh