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Reader Quotes by George Saunders
- I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on…
- Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well,…
- To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right…
- For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition…
- When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What…
- Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in…
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- 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
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary
- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels
- As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles
- Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the… — R. K. Milholland