#read

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#best #books #care #characters #driven

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#coaster #describe #exciting #give #i

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#beautiful #book #development #example #feels

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. ↗

— Jack Dee

#bible #cling #closer #commentaries #contented

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct. ↗

— Robert Vaughan

#always #because #both #code #correct

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

What we wish, that we readily believe. ↗

— Demosthenes

#readily #wish

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#before #champion #gong #just #know

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes. ↗

— Judi Dench

#because #eyes #i #more #read

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can. ↗