Books Quote by Marjorie Liu Download Open image “I can't control what a reader takes from a story.” — Marjorie Liu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Control Reader Story Takes
I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control. — Mary Downing Hahn Copy Share Image
I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I feel like if you aren't honest and if you don't let go and ease up off of the narrator, then the story doesn't… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make. — David Means Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining relationships -… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me. — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
At his heart, Gambit is a good man who believes in taking care of his friends, and his friends are what's most important to… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
There are many different ways to express intimacy - a look, a touch - and I think it enriches the characters and stories when… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I wanted to be her; I wanted to write her. Red Sonja became anchored in my imagination like a mountain. — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
To all the young kids of color - and not so young - people who want to use their voices, who are thinking, 'This… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
My dad is Chinese, and my mom is a white American, and they married only ten years after the United States Supreme Court ruled… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
