I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.
اگر آدم فقط پنج شش کتاب را به خوبی می شناخت، چه محقق برجسته ای می شد
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside hi...
This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone,...
Writers are disguised "sorcerers". Armed with their mighty pens, they cast spells on their readers using words that could pierce right through the heart and soul. If our writings moved you, made you c...
You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett
When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I don't know what to make of it, just write it like I tell it, so the reader can make...
Geschichten sind unser Gedächtnis, Bibliotheken die Lagerstätten für dieses Gedächtnis und Lesen das Handwerk, mit dem wir dieses Gedächtnis neu erschaffen können, indem wir es rezitieren und glossier...
There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone...
The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while ot...
This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men (as readers, critics, and editors) can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers.
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.