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Tag Name "Reader" (2127)

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Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.
Anna Quindlen
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I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.
Anna Quindlen
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The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it and vested in it. So the emotional connection is everything, albeit a connection on my terms.
Steve Erickson
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If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.
Venerable Bede
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If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.
Vera Brittain
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Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.
Craig Lancaster
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
Ann Voskamp
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The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.
Vera Nazarian
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Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
Verlyn Klinkenborg
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
Ann Patchett
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard
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I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.
Ann Brashares
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Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.
Sadakat Kadri
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I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in my work. One of the fundamental aspects of my work is for myself and the reader to see the world that they think they know in a different way.
Anjan Sundaram
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To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo
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Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy
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There are many people who say, I write for myself. I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.
Angeles Mastretta
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Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
Ed McBain
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
Vikram Seth
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.
Angela Carter
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Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.
Andy Wilkinson
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The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take action
Claude C. Hopkins
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Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.
Nuruddin Farah
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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.
Larry Niven
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