Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.
I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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.
My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.
Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
Reading is a lot like fine dining... Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes; I enjoy a seven-course meal.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
As outsiders looking in, my readers and I must reform how we think so we may open ourselves to new forms of knowledge.
I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.
I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the during the first eight pages.
