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“I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.”

Ifs Stills Important Stories Enjoy Awareness Reader Conscious Reactions

Author:Thomas Perry

“The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, .. Readers of all ages can listen to favorite writers speaking about their books, have books autographed, meet many storybook characters and enjoy a day on the National Mall.”

Way Book Character Age America Enjoy Creative Share Reader Family And Friends Festivals Malls Creative Work

Author:Laura Bush

“The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.”

Enjoy Imagination Materials Reader Mere Flood Suggestions Wretched Hints

Book:On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?”

Ifs Age Life Is Purpose Literature Enjoy Voice Reader Delight Standardization

Author:Dana Gioia

“There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.”

Art Three Reading Enjoy Numbers Class Judging Reader Judgment Engaged Enjoyment Latter Works Of Art

Book:Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

“I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Writing Book Done Bigs Kids Jobs Courses Enjoy Reader Picks Engaged Reluctant

Author:Rick Riordan

“Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.”

Book Reading Enjoy Talking Reader

Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits

“Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it”

Mean Book Enjoy Reader Findings Endure Enjoy Life Lifelong

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable and will engage the reader's interest, go for it. Make sure you have something unique to offer. I enjoy the work of writers who give you something you won't find anywhere else.”

Ifs Giving Writing Ideas Kids Enjoy Interest Reader Offers Unique

Author:Joel McIver

“I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.”

People Writing Language Fun Enjoy Interest Behinds Reader Internet Spread Blogs Downloads

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.”

Thinking Knows Writing Reading Enjoy Fantasy Reader

Author:Sarah Dessen

“As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.”

Mind Looks Two Book Stories Enjoy Reader Architecture Admire Construction Two Minds

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking to these people; I enjoy sort of preening them a bit. But it's a matter of decorum, basically.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Matter Bits Enjoy Talking Example Reader Listeners Lectures Decorum

Author:William H. Gass

“A book is something that young readers can experience on their own time. They decide when to turn the page. They'll put their arm right on the page so you can't turn it because they're not ready to go to the next page yet. They just want to look at it again, or they want to read the book over and over because they really enjoy setting the pace themselves.”

Want Looks Book Young Turns Next Enjoy Ready Arms Reader Pages Setting Settings Pace Not Ready

Author:Jan Brett