Books Quote by Aaron Kent

“I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being…

— John Cage

“Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they…

— Robert Black

“The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see…

— Christopher Bram

What I object to is tricking the reader and blurring the lines so that unsuspecting readers, thinking that they are getting something that is…

— David Remnick

“It is the reader who comes to complete the work and to close, albeit temporarily, the world that it opens, and the reader does…

— Pierre Bayard

“A good editor is like a pair of Spanx: firming up the body, making the subject look good, and absolutely invisible.”

— Sandi Layne

“Plus, the dots are typically very faint, so the book actually looks blank from far away—which means that people who glance at your journal…

— Rachel Wilkerson Miller

“Reader beware, reader bewildered…Read no further or reader be hindered.”

— Michael Devaney

“The reader wants to be able to see the book as if they are watching a movie.”

— LaQuita Cameron

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

— Karen Kingsbury

“There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there’s a book you want to…

— Alice Hoffman

“Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.”

— Stephen King