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Reader Quotes by Graham Swift
- Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area…
- It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are…
- In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I…
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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 am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- 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
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman