Reader Quotes

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Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the… — Ken Follett
I am not a big reader to begin with. — Billy Burke
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the… — Lorrie Moore
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. — Kevin Wilson
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman. — Claire Messud
My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to… — Francine Rivers
I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and… — Linda Sue Park
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them. — Jasper Fforde
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and… — Julia Quinn
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own,… — Kim Edwards
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own. — Quentin Blake
I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were. — Sarah Dessen
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader,… — James Jones
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream. — Steven Erikson
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. — Irving Penn
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between… — Erik Erikson
Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters… — John Updike
Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. — James Randolph Adams
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily… — William Collins
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or… — Ambrose Bierce

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