Books Quote by Laurie Foos

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are…

— John Irving

In that way, any world you create will become real. The reader makes it so. The reader becomes implicated in the creation of the…

— Pinckney Benedict

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

— Michael Koryta

“Reading helps her escape. It lets her escape to an imaginary world where she can live another life. Where she can forget about her…

— Madeleine Beckett

“You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.”

— Edan Lepucki

“Besides, she likes my stories. They are like fairy tales, I suppose, full of kings and queens and adventures. Ma says people think fairy…

— Kristin Kladstrup

“The key to high concept is that fresh twist. Make it a big one. Wow your reader. Force her to gasp when she comes…

— Darynda Jones

“I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you…

— Joy Cowley

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

— Joseph Boyden

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 tend to start with a fantastical premise, and then I place it in the world we know. Or, really, it places itself. Honestly,…

— Laurie Foos

“You think of me like a book?' 'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.”

— Beatrice Colin