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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.


P. L. Travers

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S. E. HINTON The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and ...
GARTH STEIN A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.
GERARD DE MARIGNY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to rememb...
THOMAS WOLFE If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as ...
JULIAN BARNES Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.
JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader...
ROBERT FROST It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
ETHAN CANIN That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least ti...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is ...
JOHN UPDIKE The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least t...
SYDNEY SMITH The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
JOAN DIDION I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal...
RUTH REICHL A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
DEAN ACHESON A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
DEAN ACHESON Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he...
NEVILLE CARDUS I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between...
JOHN MCGAHERN A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
NATALIE GOLDBERG No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
ROBERT FROST No happiness in the writer, no happiness in the reader.
GABRIELLE DUBOIS Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes ...
MARCEL PROUST The true reader is the one, who will carry the book nearly everywhere he goes, eager to finish it, b...
RAYMOND SANT Något av det viktigaste i all konst: att överlåta en anständig del åt läsaren, betraktaren, de...
GUNNAR EKELöF A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the w...
JOSEPH JOUBERT No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writ...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point...
ALBERTO MANGUEL The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, but the one whose vital...
ROMAIN ROLLAND I've always been a reader and a writer.
LAINI TAYLOR Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with eac...
A.S. BYATT The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it...
BEN OKRI Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the ...
PAUL DICKSON Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book...
YANN MARTEL No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.
ANTHONY LICCIONE So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
DR. SEUSS His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are c...
RUTH OZEKI The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because t...
MARK BILLINGHAM Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.
S.R. RANGANATHAN Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a ...
KEN FOLLET If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write
EPICTETUS The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.
AMAN JASSAL There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, a...
JASPER FFORDE Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
IRIS JOHANSEN Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.
PAWAN MISHRA To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal,...
BERNHARD SCHLINK There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted hi...
SAMUEL JOHNSON old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history
AMY TAN If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It...
RANDY PAUSCH A good writer sees themself as a reader; a good teacher sees themself as a student.
PETER SAYSOMPHANE I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discov...
E. L. DOCTOROW If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kep...
RAVI SUBRAMANIAN As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going ...
ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
BRYCE COURTENAY No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a di...
JOHN CONNOLLY Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of op...
MARCEL PROUST One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not tru...
JOHN GREEN I love the ultimate escapism of paranormal and fantasy - all of the otherworldly creatures, magic, a...
WENDY HIGGINS O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because th...
STEPHEN KING ...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..
JOHN GEDDES Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you...
CYNTHIA OZICK Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like...
JODI PICOULT Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the dispo...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The only important thing a writer needs is a subject. What the reader hungers after is not accomplis...
BROOKS ATKINSON The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,
the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improve...
UMBERTO ECO I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into t...
PAUL AUSTER A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (......
JOHN FOWLES A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting ...
GARRY DISHER A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also ...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right r...
ELIOT SCHREFER As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
NANCY KRESS When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yours...
WILLIAM COLLINS If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows an...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way roun...
MAYA ANGELOU Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches i...
DAVID WALLIAMS Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make m...
NEIL GAIMAN 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be conf...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The best book a writer can ever write is a book that chooses its readers, not the other way around.
SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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TARAJI P. HENSON I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
TARAJI P. HENSON With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you,...
TARAJI P. HENSON I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or b...
TARAJI P. HENSON I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz stor...
TARAJI P. HENSON When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to...
TARAJI P. HENSON Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes w...
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm nothing without God.
TARAJI P. HENSON Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
TARAJI P. HENSON I don't ever want to feel complacent.
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by you...
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn mor...
TARAJI P. HENSON I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no ...
TARAJI P. HENSON I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You do...
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
TARAJI P. HENSON It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies i...
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