#read

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. ↗

— Yann Martel

#expect #fiction #follow #genre #readers

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#more #reader #take #than #unsafe

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#good #i #just #make #me

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know? ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#be true #business #cave #could #deaf

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#enough #i #know #me #read

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#neither #nor #read #seen #should

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#abuse #actually #better #extreme #face

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#connect #i #i think #keeps #line

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. ↗

— James Madison

#comprises #develops #dreaded #every #germ