Quotes about Reader (564 quotes)

Reader, I married him. Votes: 3

Charlotte Bronte

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Reader, I literally married him. Votes: 3

Charlotte Bronte

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Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists Votes: 3

Russell Kirk

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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing. Votes: 3

Karen Kingsbury

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Reader look, not on his picture but his book. Votes: 3

Ben Jonson

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Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I. Votes: 3

Gary D. Schmidt

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The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer. Votes: 3

Gabriel Fackre

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Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand. Votes: 3

Howard Pyle

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Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage. Votes: 3

Philip Jose Farmer

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Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. Votes: 3

Benjamin Franklin

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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance. Votes: 3

Kate Winslet

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Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around. Votes: 3

Anne Roiphe

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. Votes: 3

Charles Lamb

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Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you. Votes: 3

Douglas Adams

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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. Votes: 3

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Votes: 2

Margaret Fuller

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The paper is patient, but the reader is not. Votes: 2

Joseph Joubert

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.. Votes: 2

George R. R. Martin

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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. Votes: 2

Isaac Asimov

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. Votes: 2

William Randolph Hearst

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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. Votes: 2

Kanye West

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I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. Votes: 2

Michael Chabon

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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. Votes: 2

Dean Koontz

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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. Votes: 2

John Cheever

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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. Votes: 2

Stendhal

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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. Votes: 2

William Lyon Phelps

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A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now. Votes: 2

Hilde Domin

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The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. Votes: 2

Jodi Picoult

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Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. Votes: 2

A. S. Byatt

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A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. Votes: 2

Ray Bradbury

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Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail. Votes: 2

John Templeton

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I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy Votes: 2

Diane Setterfield

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So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. Votes: 2

Lee Child

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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good. Votes: 2

Margaret Atwood

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But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing. Votes: 2

Kate DiCamillo

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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. Votes: 2

Maya Angelou

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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. Votes: 2

Margaret Atwood

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I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish. Votes: 2

Alice Munro

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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. Votes: 1

P. L. Travers

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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. Votes: 1

E. L. Doctorow

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. Votes: 1

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop. Votes: 1

Aleksandar Hemon

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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. Votes: 1

John Keats

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I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. Votes: 1

David Walliams

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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. Votes: 1

John Green

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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. Votes: 1

George F. Kennan

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I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip. Votes: 1

Sue Grafton

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I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain. Votes: 1

Monica Ali

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. Votes: 1

Leo Rosten

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I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. Votes: 1

Stephen King

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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. Votes: 1

William S. Burroughs

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I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else. Votes: 1

Dawn French

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I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. Votes: 1

David Nicholls

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I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.' Votes: 1

Maya Angelou

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I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book. Votes: 1

Chris Abani

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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing. Votes: 1

Ann Voskamp

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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. Votes: 1

Irving Penn

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I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more. Votes: 1

Isabel Allende

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The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' Votes: 1

Thomas Sowell

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I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.' Votes: 1

John Krasinski

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I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? Votes: 1

John Burdett

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When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture, no shades of gray. In fiction, you can bring the reader on the perilous journey with your characters as they discover that war is more like a wilderness of mirrors, full of danger and uncertainty. Votes: 1

Leslie Cockburn

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If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. Votes: 1

Margaret Atwood

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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge. Votes: 1

Barbara Park

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I'm a voracious reader. Votes: 0

Howard Schultz

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A leader is a reader. Votes: 0

John C. Maxwell

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I was a precocious reader. Votes: 0

Norman Spinrad

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Every text assumes a reader. Votes: 0

Alberto Manguel

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I'm an avid biography reader. Votes: 0

Brent Spiner

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I'm a really eclectic reader. Votes: 0

Alice Hoffman

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I am an avid reader. Votes: 0

June Squibb

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Captures the reader with true magic. Votes: 0

Esther M. Friesner

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I hope to offend every reader. Votes: 0

Milo Yiannopoulos

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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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But a reader's ambition knows no bounds. Votes: 0

Alberto Manguel

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Entertaining the reader is a good function. Votes: 0

David Denby

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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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I was not a big comic-book reader. Votes: 0

Brad Bird

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Not every book is for every reader. Votes: 0

Meg Waite Clayton

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Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy. Votes: 0

Fanny Fern

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When I read, I'm purely a reader Votes: 0

Anne Tyler

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a good reader makes a good book Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We need a leader, not a reader. Votes: 0

Herman Cain

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It's what the reader thinks that counts. Votes: 0

Tibor Fischer

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An active and creative reader is a re-reader. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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There's relief in white space for the reader. Votes: 0

Leni Zumas

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Each servant stamps the reader with a look. Votes: 0

John Ashbery

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One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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Be an active reader; not a passive reader. Votes: 0

Angelo Quiamco

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That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia. Votes: 0

James Joyce

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I have been a voracious reader for years. Votes: 0

Jacob Tomsky

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I'd been a thriller reader all my life. Votes: 0

Lee Child

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I am not a good cue card reader. Votes: 0

Adam Carolla

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Are you a reader? Well, good for you! Votes: 0

Love The Stacks Bookstore

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Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. Votes: 0

John Barton

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A writer is a reader moved to emulation. Votes: 0

Saul Bellow

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I've always been a reader and a writer. Votes: 0

Laini Taylor

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Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. Votes: 0

Verlyn Klinkenborg

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She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... Votes: 0

Barbara Pym

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Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov

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No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble. Votes: 0

Vera Caspary

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I was a very keen reader of science fiction. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader. Votes: 0

Manuel Puig

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A book brings its own history to the reader. Votes: 0

Alberto Manguel

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So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are. Votes: 0

Johnny Rich

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Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader. Votes: 0

Janet Evanovich

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I'm not a writer. I like being a reader. Votes: 0

Brian Reynolds Myers

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It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader. Votes: 0

Larry Niven

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Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer. Votes: 0

Richard Peck

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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike? Votes: 0

Ian Mcewan

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A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. Votes: 0

Mohsin Hamid

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Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader. Votes: 0

Robert Collier

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Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading. Votes: 0

Stephen D. Krashen

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Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer. Votes: 0

John O'Hara

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Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life. Votes: 0

Avinash Kaushik

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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader. Votes: 0

Khaled Hosseini

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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. Votes: 0

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force. Votes: 0

A.A. Attanasio

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Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. Votes: 0

Marshall McLuhan

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Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book. Votes: 0

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Your reader is at least as bright as you are Votes: 0

William Maxwell

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A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation. Votes: 0

William Maxwell

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A good reader has the power to move the world. Votes: 0

Aman Jassal

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Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader. Votes: 0

S.R. Ranganathan

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You've got to be a good date for the reader. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid. Votes: 0

Andrew Pyper

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If you would be a writer, first be a reader Votes: 0

Allan W. Eckert

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I was quite a reader before I became a writer. Votes: 0

Tom T. Hall

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I'm a great reader that never has time to read. Votes: 0

Eudora Welty

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Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable Votes: 0

S.R. Ranganathan

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway

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The better the book the more room for the reader. Votes: 0

Holbrook Jackson

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We expect a great man to be a good reader. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator. Votes: 0

Jonathan Franzen

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The best tool in a writer's arsenal is a reader's imagination. Votes: 0

Tim Campbell

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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth Votes: 0

Anatole Broyard

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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. Votes: 0

Anatole Broyard

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Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Votes: 0

Amos Bronson Alcott

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I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time. Votes: 0

Twyla Tharp

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Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit. Votes: 0

Jonathan Evison

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Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader Votes: 0

Lionel Trilling

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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose. Votes: 0

Mark Strand

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Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated. Votes: 0

Patricia Duncker

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My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book. Votes: 0

Mat Johnson

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A writer's heart must beat. A reader's heart must hear it. Votes: 0

Patricia Lee Gauch

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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader. Votes: 0

Elizabeth George

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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces. Votes: 0

Ian Frazier

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My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud. Votes: 0

James Arthur

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A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer. Votes: 0

John Green

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The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. Votes: 0

Joan Didion

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I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works. Votes: 0

Lev Grossman

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Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander. Votes: 0

Alec Sulkin

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If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself. Votes: 0

Nigel Hamilton

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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die. Votes: 0

Edgar Allan Poe

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Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience. Votes: 0

Phillip Lopate

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Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. Votes: 0

Mary Wesley

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The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question, Votes: 0

Milan Kundera

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If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum. Votes: 0

Joan Didion

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Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader Votes: 0

Victor Levin

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Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed. Votes: 0

Terri Windling

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Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader. Votes: 0

Erik Spiekermann

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Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage. Votes: 0

David Carson

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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. Votes: 0

Arthur Conan Doyle

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I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader. Votes: 0

Kelly Gallagher

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My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books. Votes: 0

Anthony Horowitz

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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem. Votes: 0

H. M. Tomlinson

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A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader. Votes: 0

Colum McCann

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A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools. Votes: 0

Horace

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I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes. Votes: 0

Rob Roberge

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If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it. Votes: 0

George MacDonald

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When I write, I don't think about the reader. I hate bosses Votes: 0

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it. Votes: 0

Owain Yeoman

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When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price? Votes: 0

David Letterman

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The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard

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It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects. Votes: 0

Joyce Maynard

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As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat. Votes: 0

David S.E. Zapanta

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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader. Votes: 0

Iris Johansen

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The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times. Votes: 0

Davy Jones

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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember. Votes: 0

David Nicholls

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I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late. Votes: 0

Nick Harkaway

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I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable. Votes: 0

Donald Ray Pollock

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The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things. Votes: 0

David Shields

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Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. Votes: 0

John Cheever

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Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead. Votes: 0

Amos Oz

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Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer. Votes: 0

Elmore Leonard

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In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author. Votes: 0

Johnny Rich

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No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? Votes: 0

John Barton

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If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader. Votes: 0

David A. Noebel

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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder. Votes: 0

Salman Rushdie

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A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. Votes: 0

Cornelia Funke

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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal. Votes: 0

Dan Brown

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You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader. Votes: 0

Nancy Kress

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I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed. Votes: 0

Sarah Vowell

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I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers. Votes: 0

Laurell K. Hamilton

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A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book. Votes: 0

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer. Votes: 0

Zadie Smith

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Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader. Votes: 0

Harry S. Truman

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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty. Votes: 0

Gayle Forman

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Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention. Votes: 0

Ted Naifeh

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I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was. Votes: 0

Tom Rachman

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We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page. Votes: 0

Philip Gerard

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I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader. Votes: 0

Sidney Sheldon

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Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. Votes: 0

Marco Arment

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By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment Votes: 0

W. G. Sebald

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ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing. Votes: 0

Raymond E. Feist

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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Votes: 0

Dean Acheson

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There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that. Votes: 0

Ewan McGregor

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When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. Votes: 0

William H. Gass

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The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. Votes: 0

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. Votes: 0

Nancy Springer

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A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue. Votes: 0

Sol Stein

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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails. Votes: 0

Robert Bly

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I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader. Votes: 0

LeVar Burton

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If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable. Votes: 0

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response. Votes: 0

William Gibson

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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. Votes: 0

Steven Pressfield

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I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour." Votes: 0

Nancy Springer

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Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best. Votes: 0

Aaron Shepard

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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. Votes: 0

Charles Kuralt

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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start Votes: 0

Horace

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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. Votes: 0

Walter Jon Williams

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In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one. Votes: 0

Howard Gordon

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Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader. Votes: 0

Nuruddin Farah

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Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku. Votes: 0

Douglas Hofstadter

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I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader. Votes: 0

Geoffrey Rush

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I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix) Votes: 0

Marion Dane Bauer

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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world. Votes: 0

Natalie Goldberg

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The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention. Votes: 0

Barbara Tuchman

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For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom. Votes: 0

Norman Lock

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Iâm a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life. Votes: 0

Lorin Stein

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I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again. Votes: 0

Sophie Thompson

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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness. Votes: 0

Alfred Nobel

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I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine. Votes: 0

Jason Schwartzman

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The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. Votes: 0

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. Votes: 0

Tobias Wolff

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Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail. Votes: 0

Ayelet Waldman

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If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader. Votes: 0

Aman Jassal

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I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. Votes: 0

Tom Sizemore

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Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses Votes: 0

Steve Aylett

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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. Votes: 0

Barbara W. Tuchman

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A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard. Votes: 0

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. Votes: 0

Glen Cook

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A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. Votes: 0

Alexander Brome

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But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. Votes: 0

John McGahern

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If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. Votes: 0

Rick Atkinson

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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. Votes: 0

Barbara Tuchman

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Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being. Votes: 0

Laurie R. King

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Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. Votes: 0

Alexander McCall Smith

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Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. Votes: 0

Jean Craighead George

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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. Votes: 0

Aidan Chambers

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An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. Votes: 0

Claud Cockburn

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You have to be a speedy reader because thereâs so so much to read. Votes: 0

Dr. Seuss

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You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. Votes: 0

Aman Jassal

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A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind. Votes: 0

Margaret Deland

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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile. Votes: 0

Isabel Allende

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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations. Votes: 0

Nora Roberts

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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage. Votes: 0

Akhil Sharma

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Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing. Votes: 0

Jonathan Zittrain

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Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone. Votes: 0

John Cheever

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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with. Votes: 0

Zadie Smith

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As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. Votes: 0

Greg van Eekhout

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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. Votes: 0

Michael Ondaatje

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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. Votes: 0

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry. Votes: 0

Edward Hirsch

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I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head. Votes: 0

Honor Blackman

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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. Votes: 0

Nikki Giovanni

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The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. Votes: 0

Lois Lowry

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The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given. Votes: 0

Paul Theroux

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To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... Votes: 0

John Ashbery

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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. Votes: 0

Kate DiCamillo

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After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. Votes: 0

Kate Morton

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The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader. Votes: 0

Jen Lancaster

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I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest. Votes: 0

Nelson DeMille

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The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow. Votes: 0

John Ciardi

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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. Votes: 0

Cornelia Funke

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Mirror the reader to himself and then show him afterward how your product fits his needs. Votes: 0

Raymond Rubicam

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A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature. Votes: 0

Julia Alvarez

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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. Votes: 0

Joanne Harris

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I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith

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As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers! Votes: 0

Melissa Marr

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Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader. Votes: 0

Rob Roberge

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Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. Votes: 0

Maxim Gorky

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As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers! Votes: 0

Melissa Marr

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President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. Votes: 0

Pierre Salinger

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Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader. Votes: 0

A. E. van Vogt

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Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. Votes: 0

John Leonard

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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its readerâs head. Votes: 0

Christopher Logue

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The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens

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It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing. Votes: 0

Elmore Leonard

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My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. Votes: 0

Paula Spencer

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They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch. Votes: 0

Cynthia Lewis

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The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions. Votes: 0

Lynsey Addario

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Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life. Votes: 0

Louise Rosenblatt

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And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted Votes: 0

Lin Yutang

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I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.' Votes: 0

Ashwin Sanghi

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I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around. Votes: 0

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died. Votes: 0

Dan Chaon

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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. Votes: 0

Roland Barthes

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My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader. Votes: 0

Barry Lane

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As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next. Votes: 0

Tracy Chevalier

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A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. Votes: 0

E. L. Doctorow

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck

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To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. Votes: 0

Kelly Gallagher

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Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted. Votes: 0

Vikram Seth

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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. Votes: 0

Cyril Connolly

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Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. Votes: 0

Guy Gavriel Kay

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What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed. Votes: 0

Lisa Morton

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The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader. Votes: 0

John Petrucci

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I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history. Votes: 0

David Mandel

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If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading. Votes: 0

Henry Green

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My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time. Votes: 0

Jacqueline Woodson

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I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me. Votes: 0

John Dufresne

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Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice. Votes: 0

Leo Burnett

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I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves. Votes: 0

Anne Sexton

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No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. Votes: 0

Walter Benjamin

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For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader. Votes: 0

Lee Child

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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing. Votes: 0

E. B. White

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I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Eugenides

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I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading. Votes: 0

Nicole Jordan

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When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private. Votes: 0

Wallace Stegner

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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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Anybody who is afraid of reading a page of text is not the reader that I want. Votes: 0

Rick Remender

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When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. Votes: 0

Michael Connelly

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Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too. Votes: 0

George V. Higgins

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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. Votes: 0

Jonathan Dee

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The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable. Votes: 0

Julian Barnes

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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. Votes: 0

William Faulkner

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I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible. Votes: 0

John Henrik Clarke

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For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. Votes: 0

Mary McCarthy

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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. Votes: 0

Helen Dunmore

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Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book. Votes: 0

Dakota Blue Richards

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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are. Votes: 0

Robert Cormier

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But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that Votes: 0

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I have been an avid reader of 'Golf Digest' ever since I started playing this great game. Votes: 0

Paula Creamer

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You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide. Votes: 0

Justin Cronin

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I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov

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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. Votes: 0

Agnes Repplier

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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. Votes: 0

Amos Bronson Alcott

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Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader. Votes: 0

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again. Votes: 0

Scott McCloud

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All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors Votes: 0

William Whitworth

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I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books. Votes: 0

Elmore Leonard

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I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something. Votes: 0

Carrie Coon

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I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. Votes: 0

Peter Schjeldahl

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Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Votes: 0

Tyler Cowen

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I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. Votes: 0

Kevin J. Anderson

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Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story Votes: 0

Esther Freud

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If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener. Votes: 0

Joseph Bruchac

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Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career. Votes: 0

Volker Ullrich

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The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer. Votes: 0

Zadie Smith

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I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next. Votes: 0

Ken Follett

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My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. Votes: 0

Anthony Horowitz

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To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. Votes: 0

Johnny Rich

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Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden. Votes: 0

Marie de Gournay

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Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat. Votes: 0

E. B. White

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If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing. Votes: 0

Jennifer Egan

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Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel. Votes: 0

Dani Shapiro

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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. Votes: 0

Michael Cunningham

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I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader. Votes: 0

Dave Barry

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The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal. Votes: 0

Rod Serling

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I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader. Votes: 0

George Sarton

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It's a rare reader who doesn't go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. Votes: 0

Norman Rush

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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender. Votes: 0

Akhil Sharma

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I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. Votes: 0

Steve Erickson

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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself. Votes: 0

Curtis Sittenfeld

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It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please. Votes: 0

Sara Zarr

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I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers. Votes: 0

Jan Neruda

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To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated. Votes: 0

Chang-Rae Lee

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I have a lot of respect for readers because I'm a reader. That's how I got into writing. Votes: 0

Toni Morrison

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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'. Votes: 0

Patrick Ness

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I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd. Votes: 0

Joe Manganiello

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way. Votes: 0

Amy Dickinson

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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News. Votes: 0

Gloria Steinem

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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own. Votes: 0

Quentin Blake

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I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek. Votes: 0

Richard Armitage

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Personally, I'm a big reader, and I've never wanted any of my favorite novels to be made into movies. Votes: 0

Stephen Moyer

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. Votes: 0

George Plimpton

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Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work. Votes: 0

Marge Piercy

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I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them. Votes: 0

Thighpaulsandra

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I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own. Votes: 0

Terry Southern

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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. Votes: 0

Jon Krakauer

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I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with. Votes: 0

Brian Keene

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My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. Votes: 0

David James Duncan

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As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers. Votes: 0

Laurie Foos

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A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust. Votes: 0

Po Bronson

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The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer. Votes: 0

Wallace Stegner

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There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it. Votes: 0

Dermot Healy

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I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. Votes: 0

Aleksandar Hemon

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I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader. Votes: 0

Reese Witherspoon

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The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself. Votes: 0

J. Milton Hayes

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. Votes: 0

Dr. Seuss

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If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. Votes: 0

Barry Eisler

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I pull out my e-reader and get back to my fictional boyfriend. Lord knows he won't cheat on me. Votes: 0

M.D. Saperstein

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It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff. Votes: 0

Marc Guggenheim

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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. Votes: 0

Barry Eisler

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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. Votes: 0

John Barton

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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer. Votes: 0

Nathan Lowell

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I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. Votes: 0

Roald Dahl

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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see. Votes: 0

Zosia Mamet

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The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. Votes: 0

A.W. Tozer

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What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. Votes: 0

Len Wein

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In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader. Votes: 0

Josh Radnor

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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people. Votes: 0

Ann Patchett

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The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work. Votes: 0

Daniel J. Bernstein

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There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. Votes: 0

Stephen Ambrose

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I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. Votes: 0

Sidney Sheldon

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You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable. Votes: 0

Alasdair Gray

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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place. Votes: 0

Macaulay Culkin

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To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. Votes: 0

Karen Thompson Walker

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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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A good friend of mine once said, I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. Votes: 0

Marion Dane Bauer

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An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer. Votes: 0

Karen Thompson Walker

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As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world. Votes: 0

Lynne Tillman

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That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job. Votes: 0

Patrick Ness

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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write. Votes: 0

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. Votes: 0

Ann Voskamp

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I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued. Votes: 0

Joseph Boyden

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The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit. Votes: 0

William Safire

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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to. Votes: 0

E. L. Doctorow

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I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything. Votes: 0

Hermann E. Ott

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I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about. Votes: 0

Judith Krantz

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Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart. Votes: 0

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. Votes: 0

James Joyce

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But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Eugenides

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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible. Votes: 0

Anita Diament

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Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. Votes: 0

Augusten Burroughs

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader. Votes: 0

Grant Morrison

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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it. Votes: 0

Piers Anthony

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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. Votes: 0

Beverly Cleary

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At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. Votes: 0

Avi Arad

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If the writer were more like a reader, he'd be a reader, not a writer. It's as uncomplicated as that. Votes: 0

Julian Barnes

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There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. Votes: 0

Maggie Stiefvater

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I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time. Votes: 0

Amish Tripathi

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Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into. Votes: 0

Susan Wiggs

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It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. Votes: 0

Johannes Kepler

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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov

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I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not. Votes: 0

Rhys Darby

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Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time. Votes: 0

Garry Trudeau

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Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man? Votes: 0

Maxim Gorky

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Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer. Votes: 0

Ken Follett

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You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.' Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins

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[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers. Votes: 0

Garry Disher

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I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time. Votes: 0

Andrea Riseborough

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I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading. Votes: 0

Jennifer Armentrout

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I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. Votes: 0

J. Patrick Lewis

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The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off. Votes: 0

Nicholson Baker

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I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page. Votes: 0

Nelson DeMille

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If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. Votes: 0

Andrew Pyper

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. Votes: 0

Thomas Wolfe

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It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.' Votes: 0

Bill Gates

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You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life. Votes: 0

Jim George

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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody. Votes: 0

Ann Patchett

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I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder. Votes: 0

Mario Benedetti

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My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it. Votes: 0

Sue Grafton

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I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. Votes: 0

Vivienne Westwood

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