Reader Quotes

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

I was a precocious reader.

A writer's heart must beat. A reader's heart must hear it.

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

We don't want emotion handed to us - that's not emotion. You have to build and come from the reader's soul.

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.

Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk.

With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.