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Reader Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined…
- If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to…
- A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has…
- I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.
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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
- 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