Reader Quotes
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The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
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Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
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What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.
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I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are.
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The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.
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For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
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It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families, their communities, and their Maker.
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One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.
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There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.
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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.
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Al Bernstein has seen cable television sports grow up. In 30 Years/30 Undeniable Truths he looks at his time in the industry through a prism that is unique to him. This book gives the reader an insight into the sometimes absurd world of television sports. There is a 31st undeniable truth: Al Bernstein is a truly funny man.
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.
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I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.
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Evidently what in the fiction of the story serves in all innocence to reach the heart of the reader becomes an abomination for one who feels the echo of the facts she has really lived.
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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
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I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.
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The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.
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Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
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The book is famous for two things: It's an early reader for kids with its simple language. And the second thing is how the fantastic illustrations show dogs doing human things.
