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Reader Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is…
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see…
- There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
- I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything…
- Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and…
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