Books Quote by Michael Ondaatje Download Open image “It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.” — Michael Ondaatje ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Reader Responsibility Writing
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer. — Jean Little Copy Share Image
Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it. — Sushan Copy Share Image
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I look for what responsibility the character has in telling the story. If you remove the role from the story, can you still tell… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
I think the writer makes a good story good or a good story bad. The writer has a great deal of responsibility. — Tom Robinson Copy Share Image
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes… — Hilary Mantel 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
“In spite of this, our table's status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain's Table were constantly toasting to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“...those who had risked everything at a riverbend on a left turn and so discovered a fortune.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love - seemingly… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You know it is the most relaxed thing when you when you sit with a best friend and you know there is nothing you… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“There was no control except the " mood of his power... and it is for this reason it is good you never heard him… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the… — Michael Ondaatje 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
