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I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff.

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

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