Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.
I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.
It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.
Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium!
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.
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.
For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.
I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.
The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.