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When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
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With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
To keep the readers interested, and coming back, and to keep coming up with new and exciting ways to present stories and… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
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I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making… — Clara Mamet Copy Share Image
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The most enjoyable part in writing a series is being able to visit a world I have created and revisit old friends.… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
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A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.'… — Morris Hite Copy Share Image
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My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself.… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
The worst kind of novel is one that blames other people for the racial problem in order to make the reader feel… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as… — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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