We read to learn.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The best gift you can give me is a book.
Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.
~ Nicholaa Spencer
Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.
~ Alex Morritt
when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
~ John Hodgman
Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's about using those lies to say something true and real. It's about showing the reader something. It's about making them
~ Stacia Kane
...what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.
~ Stephen Koch
Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
~ Bernard Cornwell
