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A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream (Reader Quotes)
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way (Reader Quotes)
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read (Reader Quotes)
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself (Reader Quotes)
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect (Reader Quotes)
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events (Reader Quotes)
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world (Reader Quotes)
Kant’s style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness (Reader Quotes)
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader (Reader Quotes)
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader (Reader Quotes)
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers (Reader Quotes)
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine (Reader Quotes)
Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader (Reader Quotes)
My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it (Reader Quotes)
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text (Reader Quotes)
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life (Reader Quotes)
The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it’s killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence (Reader Quotes)
Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes (Reader Quotes)
Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around (Reader Quotes)
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it (Reader Quotes)
As a reader, I don’t feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know (Reader Quotes)
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them (Reader Quotes)
An able reader often discovers in other people’s writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects (Reader Quotes)
I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I’d imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them (Reader Quotes)
Just because you’re an avid reader doesn’t mean you’re an avid understander (Reader Quotes)
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you’re telling a story you’re telling it into someone’s ear (Reader Quotes)
What I’m constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language (Reader Quotes)
I can’t imagine writing if I didn’t have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience (Reader Quotes)
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern (Reader Quotes)
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader (Reader Quotes)