Amount Quote by Edward Gorey

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk…

— Norman Mailer

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

— Andrew Pyper

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

— Rick Riordan

Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader.

— Robert Collier

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

— Scott Westerfeld

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

— Akhil Sharma

Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable

— S. R. Ranganathan

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have…

— Rebecca West

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

— Peter Schjeldahl