“Sometimes there is no chemistry between writer and reader, so - give up. Not all books are meant to be read.” — My mother Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.” — Tom Grimes Copy Share Image
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader,… — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs;… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Books should grow the soul - while the reader has a little fun along the way.” — A.K. Frailey Copy Share Image
You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers! — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
“the only test any book should ever have to pass is whether the reader likes it” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. — William Collins Copy Share Image
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