Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours....
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himse...
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upo...
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the r...
Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning b...
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a gen...
What I can say with honesty is that my research in Russia and in Germany has brought me nothing but the worsening of my eyesight and the waste of years of my life. And I did it all for you.
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!
I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes.
Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.
The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.