Face Reader Quotes

#1. You can run but you can't hide from a face reader.

Richard Lacey

#2. The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

Julia Quinn

#3. We know if we could truly love, and be loved, and never lose love, we would finally be happy.

John Eldredge

#4. He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

Joseph Campbell

#5. He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Stephen King

#6. Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.

T.E.D. Klein

#7. I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience.

Oliver Neubert

#8. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Stephen Hawking

#9. God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

Mattie Stepanek

#10. Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

Helen Dunmore

#11. Service is how product is delivered - the technical aspect.

Danny Meyer

#12. At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon.

Michael Chabon

#13. Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound.
~Slater

Ted Dekker

#14. It was as if she was becoming the light.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#15. Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

Rian Johnson

#16. The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

William Hurt

#17. A triumphant grin on his face, dressed in a familiar suit made of slippery-looking material, but with a portrait of another author whom only a very devoted reader would recognize,

Lemony Snicket

#18. Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know.

Michel Houellebecq

#19. The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control ... Good writing ... explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.

Joy Williams

#20. Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

Nuruddin Farah

#21. Sometimes I would see myself as a book with bad binding. You know, like one more reader, one more face-down on the bed and I was going to spill everything, lose control

Jerry Pinto

#22. Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

Joy Williams

#23. Don't think much when you actually want to express your feelings for someone.

Anuj Tiwari

#24. I seek in the reading of my books only to please myself by an irreproachable diversion; or if I study it is for no other science than that which treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and live well.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

Ella Maillart

#26. The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.

Paul Auster

#27. I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

Kalpana Chawla

#28. When you were born, did your parents shove a book of world history in your face? No, absolutely not. They gave you what you could handle, and that's exactly how you need to treat the reader.

A.J. Flowers

#29. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

Brett Armstrong

#30. Cowboy!" she hollered.
Every man on the street turned to stare at her."
pg.117

Lori Wilde

#31. I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.

Franz Kafka