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Reader Quotes by Stephen King
- My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother…
- Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter…
- But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here.…
- Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
- The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part…
- As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.
- Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome…
- I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I…
- I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a…
- Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
- In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers…
- I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your…
- The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
- I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the…
- Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of…
- All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and…
- A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.
More Reader Quotes
- 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