A good writer is impatient on behalf of the reader. They ruthlessly eliminate unnecessary information and needless words. They are respectful of the reader’s time by only including what matters.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things....

The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

A writer must be a lifelong reader to be good. And if you want to be a great writer, I’d suggest trying to live a long life by reading the ingredients of the foods you...

I’ve always been a reader and a writer.

For when I trace back the years I have liv’d, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer’d Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my...

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

I wouldn’t read Jarod’s writing—not even if he paid me to read it. And he does pay me to read his writing, but that doesn’t mean I do.” Of course the quote continued on, but...

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

I hadn’t been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

Quand je lis un livre, j’y mets toute mon imagination, de sorte qu’en ce sens la lecture ressemble un peu à l’écriture; ou plutôt c’est comme si je vivais ce que je lisais

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else’s shoes. The reader’s shoes. You’ve got to entertain them.

If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader.-Suzanne Steele

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You’re my ideal reader, friend, partner. I’m your fan.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work...

The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case already prepared by the lower court. The feeling by means of which the author has separated...

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you’re lost in a book? You know the one – when whatever’s going on around you seems less real than what you’re reading and all you want...

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps...

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that… the reader is left with an echo of: ‘How much of this was from me?’

He reached into the bag and drew out an odd array of manga, ripped paperbacks of books both classic and modern, and a small stack of crumpled magazines. “See, I even brought some things to...

For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep language. It has always been so.

A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol’s dismay. World without end. Was Illustra, their entire world, nothing more than a lot for the ultimate...

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers’ minds.

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader.

I have falling in love with reading.

It ain’t just about writing on some documents,author writes on to the readers’ heart and mind.

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

What a writer brought to a book didn’t matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Here in the realm of books she’s self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn’t have anywhere else.

That’s what our country needs – more books and far more readers.

Liquid quotes are more drinkable. Make your writing as fluid as possible, so people can chug it in one tasty gulp.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of...

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those...

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.

Good writing is a mirror of the mind where readers can see themselves again and again.

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It’s the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.