Books Quote by Robert Cormier Download Open image “I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.” — Robert Cormier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Intelligent Mind Psychology Reader Thinking Writing
I guess if you try to write with honesty and emotional truth, then that will resonate no matter what the age of the viewer. — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
It's very useful to be able to look inside the mind of a seven-year-old when you're writing for youngsters that age. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a bit more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's always with… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the only word… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“He was afraid that his body would come loose, all his bones spilling out like a building collapsing, like a picket fence clattering apart.” — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant.… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it… — Robert Cormier 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