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Truth
Great Truth
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
- A. E. van Vogt
Another
Telling
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
- Abraham Verghese
Other
Read
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
- Adam Carolla
I Am
Cue
I am not a good cue card reader.
- Adam Carolla
Book
Through
A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.
- Adam Hughes
Starving
Feels
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.
- Adam Johnson
Own
Fact
As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Soul
Fancy
I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.
- Adriana Trigiani
Literature
About
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
- Aidan Chambers
Which
Voracious
I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not.
- Ajith Kumar
Fact
Owners
Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
- Al Franken
Fact
Frequently
Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.
- Alafair Burke
Love
Bit
My normal life is I love to travel, and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader, I guess you could say: I'm a bit of a bookworm.
- Alaina Huffman
Doing
Instance
I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.
- Alan Bennett
Back
Another
I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.
- Alan Furst
Back
Britain
For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.
- Alan Furst
Through
Comics
In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.
- Alan Moore
Book
Point
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.
- Alberto Manguel
Retreat
Writer
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
- Aleksandar Hemon
Love
Bit
My normal life is, I love to travel and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader; I guess you could say I'm a bit of a bookworm.
- Alexa Davalos
Alive
Need
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
- Ali Smith
Want
Feel
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing - not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
- Alice Munro
Words
Own
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
- Allen Tate
Book
Doing
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.
- Amber Benson
Give
Voracious
I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.
- Amish Tripathi
I Think
Been
I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?
- Amish Tripathi
Otherwise
Offending
If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.
- Amity Shlaes
Wise
Quote
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Pink
Glasses
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight.
- Amy Bloom
Own
Sentences
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.
- Amy Bloom
Breathing
Having
With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.
- Amy Gerstler
Bad
Stick
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
- Anatole Broyard
Reason
I Think
I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.
- Andrew Clements
Book
Entertaining
I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.
- Andrew Gross
Afraid
Had
To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
- Andrew Pyper
Will
Figure
If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
- Andrew Pyper
Buy
Before
Hard paywalls will never work because, just like at a newsstand, the reader likes to browse the cover and a few articles before choosing to buy. Even if the material is truly unique, a consumer likes to try a little before buying.
- Andrew Ross Sorkin
Forgive
Rooting
If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.
- Andy Weir
Shake
Stories
I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
- Ann Beattie
Own
Possession
A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.
- Ann Cleeves
I Think
Maybe
Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there's a real problem in trying to introduce a new world or a new concept while also getting your reader to pay close attention to your characters and themes.
- Ann Leckie
Other
Really
When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'
- Ann Leckie
Reason
Read
I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.
- Ann Turner
Good Writing
Screen
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
- Ann Voskamp
Love
Mischief
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
- Anne Enright
Language
Another
Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.
- Anne Michaels
Questions
Idea
I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.
- Anne Michaels
Very
Hundred
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
- Anne Michaels
Read
Purely
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
- Anne Tyler
Honest
Big
I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.
- Ansel Elgort
Behind
Everybody
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
- Anthony Browne
Better
Before
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
- Anthony Horowitz
Book
United
'Modesty Blaise' is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she's an institution - especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She's a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of 'Modesty Blaise'.
- Antony Johnston
Some
Other
Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.
- Antonya Nelson
I Think
Fiction
I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.
- Antonya Nelson
Want
Earn
I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.
- Antonya Nelson
Years
Hundred
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
- Arthur Koestler
Will
Characters
Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.
- Arthur Slade
More
Entertaining
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
- Arthur Smith
Some
Revelations
I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.
- Ashwin Sanghi
Sure
Grips
I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
- Ashwin Sanghi
Hypocrite
Fellow
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
- Charles Baudelaire
Him
Least
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Been
Almost
I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as long, so being tapped to officially join the team is truly something.
- Charles Soule
Slow
Very
I'm a very slow reader.
- Chip Kidd
Wanting
Impressed
I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.
- Chris Abani
Alive
Methods
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.
- Chris Crutcher
Book
Kid
I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.
- Ciara Renee
Found
Very
As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.
- Claire Messud
Best
Thriving
As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world's most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses.
- Clay Clark
Love
Use
In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.
- Colleen McCullough
More
Real People
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
- Cornelia Funke
Best
Telling
I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.
- Cristina Henriquez
Could
Prose
In terms of graphic versus prose, I could probably do a lecture on that topic. But what stood out most was the difference in pacing the language and resulting scenes. One illustration can do so much for the reader.
- Cynthia Leitich Smith
Tell
Conceal
It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
- Dan Brown
Kind
Also
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
- Dan Chaon
Through
Address
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
- Dana Goodyear
Own
Very
I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you can't even begin to touch that. A novel is a singular vision, and then a myriad of readers have their own experience of that.
- Darren Boyd
Making
Viewer
It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.
- Dave Morris
Book
Important
It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
- David A. Adler
Some
About
In some ways, writing a novel, especially a novel set in the past and about characters who once lived, is about amassing enough details and arranging them properly in order to offer the reader a verisimilitude that satisfies his or her curiosity about the story at hand.
- David Ebershoff
Keen
Idea
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.
- David Foster Wallace
I See
Over
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
- David Foster Wallace
Old
Till
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
- David James Duncan
Reasons
Very
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
- David McCullough
Ink
Foremost
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.
- David Wroblewski
Bad
Times
The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
- Davy Jones
Inform
Written
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
- Dean Acheson
Romance
Brighter
In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.
- Debbie Macomber
Career
About
Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.
- Debbie Macomber
Own
Read
I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved.
- Deborah Harkness
I Think
Everybody
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
- Jim Harrison
Faith
Viewer
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
- Jim Lehrer
Becoming
Big
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.
- Jo Nesbo
Book
I Think
The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.
- Jo Nesbo
Through
Discovering
I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
- Joan D. Vinge
Night
Informing
I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.
- Joanna Southcott
Very
Agent
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
- John Barton
Average
I Think
I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?
- John Burdett
Expect
Might
A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
- John Christopher
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