Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. E. Hinton

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

Samantha Shannon

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

Andrew Clements

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

Mary Grandpre

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

Andrew Pyper

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Siri Hustvedt

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

Mark Billingham

If something is crucial to the plot, then I'd better be sure I've got my facts straight. Readers of crime novels are smart and savvy, and they'll waste no time letting me know if there's a hole in my plot.

Santiago Calatrava

He taught readers that they deserve beauty and meaning and must demand it in their cities. He taught me, and many architects, that we must answer this demand and never stop challenging ourselves.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

He doesn't highlight the things he thinks is fact and the things he thinks is fiction, so the reader hasn't any way of knowing.

Siri Hustvedt

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

The purpose of the newsletter is to supply the reader with a reliable supply of seeds made up of proven motivational ideas and strategies that can be immediately put to use.

Jeremy Miller

We?re on a mission to win back both readers and advertisers. We?re going to cover the hip-hop scene from a neutral but still hard-hitting point of view.

We're offering a concrete business model with which we can go forward with vendor partners to allow readers access to the contents of our books in way that satisfies readers' interest in sampling and discovery.

If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, they will come back again and again their whole life. We've generated a lifelong reader and a lifelong library user.

Rafael Yglesias

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget

Maggie Gallagher

I'd like to take this opportunity to again apologize to my readers for an oversight in not disclosing that I had done a small amount of work for the government in my specialty.

We can communicate to our readers what this is about without running it.

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

What we do now is complicated. We look forward to having all our operations under one roof. This will be a positive move for our employees, our readers and our advertisers.

John Searles

Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of signings. Nowadays, readers want to feel a connection with an author.

Raina Telgemeier

Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

David Allen

Going to cons is almost always a money-losing affair. You do it to meet your readers and show the flag with a hope of attracting new readers.

Teju Cole

I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Ruth Rendell

I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.

Mark Billingham

I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

Michael Robotham

I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.

Mark Billingham

I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.

I am thrilled for the opportunity to continue to serve this community. I hope to build on our tradition of accurately delivering important news to our readers first.

Julia Quinn

Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.

David Wallace

But, again, the last twenty years have seen big changes in how writers engage their readers, what readers need to expect from any kind of art.

Andrew Gross

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.