I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
James Laughlin

I want a kiss to be so believable it give the reader shivers.
Laurell K. Hamilton

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
Alice Munro

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.
Terry Brooks

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
Joan D. Vinge

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.
Sarah Vowell

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary

I was a precocious reader.
Norman Spinrad

I was not a big comic-book reader.
Brad Bird

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
Tom T. Hall

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
Charles Kuralt

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
Kenneth Koch

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
Sidney Sheldon

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
Manuel Puig

I'm a lousy reader.
Broderick Crawford

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
Terri Windling

I'm an avid biography reader.
Brent Spiner

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
Sue Grafton

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.
Mike Krzyzewski

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.
Honor Blackman