Reader Quotes

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There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop… — Junot Diaz
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. — Joan Didion
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. — E L Doctorow
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're… — Roger Ebert
Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before… — Roger Ebert
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These… — Umberto Eco
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of… — Umberto Eco
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative:… — Dave Eggers
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind. — Julian Fellowes
I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find… — Tim Ferriss
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as… — Nathan Fillion
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a… — Joshua Foer
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. — Mohsin Hamid
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?' — Mohsin Hamid
I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. — Seamus Heaney
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. — John Hersey
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your… — Carl Hiaasen

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