Reader Quotes

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Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader. — Larry Niven
Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer. — John O'Hara
[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work… — Lawrence Clark Powell
A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what… — Ayn Rand
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue. — Sol Stein
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms… — Sol Stein
There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see… — Eudora Welty
Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It… — George Will
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the… — William Zinsser
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop… — William Zinsser
Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that… — William Zinsser
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The… — Robert Frost
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I… — David Guterson
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved. — Tracy Kidder
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for… — Barry Lopez
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to… — James A. Michener
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at… — William Zinsser
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. — Tom Clancy
A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in… — Cyril Connolly

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