Quotes About Author

We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it and observe it.

I can only be instinctive in my reaction to Shakespeare.

'The Room' has never interested me as a film. The reaction interested me.

We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.

I was really super into science an not at all in to politics. I think it was a reaction against the fact my dad was a diplomat. I wanted to do something that was totally different. I fell in love with science.

My first reaction to any fight opportunity is yes, just out of instincts. That's why I'm in this sport.

I've had more reaction to 'Peaky' than anything. People react really intensely.

I think it'd be pretty juvenile to make a record as a reaction to my critics.

The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

Reading an audio book is a very odd experience because there are three people sitting out there while you're reading in this glass booth, and you can see their reactions.

The negative reactions to 'The Number of the Beast' were strange. When we wrote it, we never expected anything like that.

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

I already don't read reviews, I don't seek them out. Sometimes my family will tell me if there's a nice one.

I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

Most claims you read about psychological manipulation are rubbish.

I read a lot of scripts at the beginning of 2015.

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.