Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.
Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies.
You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.
I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.
If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.
I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.
Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.
I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.
It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.
It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.
If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.
I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.