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An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer (Reader Quotes)
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know (Reader Quotes)
The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading. But the thinking will come afterwards (Reader Quotes)
The labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader (Reader Quotes)
In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else (Reader Quotes)
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races (Reader Quotes)
One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn’t casual about their habit (Reader Quotes)
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that? (Reader Quotes)
There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader (Reader Quotes)
... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply (Reader Quotes)
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write (Reader Quotes)
I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice (Reader Quotes)
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader (Reader Quotes)
It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader (Reader Quotes)
Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime (Reader Quotes)
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through.... That is why people read: to have experiences (Reader Quotes)
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library (Reader Quotes)
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time (Reader Quotes)
I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that’s it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn’t get any work done (Reader Quotes)
As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other (Reader Quotes)
Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader (Reader Quotes)
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer (Reader Quotes)
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder (Reader Quotes)
I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives (Reader Quotes)
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it’s much more important to be a reader than to be a writer! (Reader Quotes)
As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers! (Reader Quotes)
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman (Reader Quotes)
Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story (Reader Quotes)
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations (Reader Quotes)
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not? (Reader Quotes)