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Reader Quotes by Charles de Lint
- I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what…
- Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do…
- My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as…
- To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are…
- The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up…
- The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a…
- The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether…
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- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
- Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks
- I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary