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Reader Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
- You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of…
- I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no…
- A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her…
- In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now…
- There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any…
- I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and…
- Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.
- I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that…
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- 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
- Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want… — J. Michael Straczynski