I was a precocious reader.
The reader is the final arbiter.
I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with homosexuality, so it’s difficult to have your book on the shelves.” Here’s the thing: Being gay is not an issue, it is an identity. It is not something that you can agre...
If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
I am not a good cue card reader.
Are you a reader? Well, good for you!
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Will the reader turn the page?
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
For people who are readers, reading is important to them.
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader
I love connecting with readers!
I know how you feel about me. I feel the same way. You never have to worry that you don't tell me enough, okay?" There he went again, being all perceptive to the point of being creepy psychic mind reader guy. "You're creepy psychic mind reader guy." ...
Individuals start to see themselves reflected in their work and to understand their full status as human beings through the object created, through the work accomplished. Work no longer entails surrendering a part of one's being in the form of labor ...
Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in their excess ...
Your writing can be chosen by one publisher and hated by all readers, or it can be rejected by one publisher and loved by all readers. Most of the time it’s somewhere in between, but either way, don’t let rejection stop you from being hated.
