Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.
As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.
When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.
If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.
If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
Reader, I literally married him.
But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.
We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.
I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.
A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.
Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.
The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
A book brings its own history to the reader.
Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.