Reader Quotes
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Will the reader turn the page?
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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
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Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.
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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
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I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.
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Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice all the time. Provoke the reader. Astonish the reader. Writing that has no surprises is as bland as oatmeal. Surprise the reader with the unexpected verb or adjective. Use one startling adjective per page.
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I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.
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Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.
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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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Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
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I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.
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I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.
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Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.
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An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.
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I want the reader to get the feeling that the text is trying to rearrange itself, upon every reading or in the act of reading. I don't want the presentation of narrative; I want a life told out of order.
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A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.
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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
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She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.
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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.
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Reader, I literally married him.
