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If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
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Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial… — Missy Elliot Copy Share Image
I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
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If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
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