Accuracy Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

— Rick Riordan

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

— Djuna Barnes

Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader.

— Robert Collier

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and…

— Adam Haslett

When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily…

— Thomas Merton

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work…

— Theodora Goss

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react.…

— Richard Dean Anderson

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith