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“I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.”

Thinking Book Helping Might Would Be Reading Students Reader Fit Picks Guides Mentor

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

“The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.”

Writing May Has Beens Facts Stories Process Reader Fit Narrative

Book:Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989

Source: Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989

“Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.”

Kind Real Reading Difficult Interest Attention Imagine Reader Fit Be Good All Kinds Engaged Being Real Imaginary Difficult Things

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.”

Humans Wells Body Happens Reader Fit Essence Down And Size Newspapers Flying Desert Display Human Body Rabbits Eagles Zoom Scanning Body Work

Author:Russ Wilcox

“I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a sense of what I was listening to while I was writing.”

Writing Book Listening Reader Fit Listening To Music Playlists

Author:Cassandra Clare

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

Causes Successful Reader Fit Paper Columns

Author:William Safire

“I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'”

World Firsts Humans Kind Stories Individual Social Fiction Reader Fit Details Human Life Internals Affected Jane Smiley

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.”

Helping Problem Social Deals Novel Groups Reader Fit Offers Conflict Analysis Protagonists Social Problems

Author:Jane Smiley

“Mirror the reader to himself and then show him afterward how your product fits his needs.”

Needs Shows Products Reader Fit Mirrors

Author:Raymond Rubicam

“I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or is written by already established authors. I don't by any means try to hide what I write, but the way people think in categories here is pretty extreme: it blots out discussing the actual work on its own terms. That's made me loath to talk about my own work in terms of genre, because once you get a label, it sticks and poof go a slew of potential readers and reviewers because eww, fantasy cooties.”

People Thinking Way Writing Trying Mean Made Nations Term My Own Fiction Fantasy Written Reader Fit Lows Sticks Extremes Fantastic Labels Genre Categories Discussing Reviewers Cooties

Author:Karin Tidbeck

“A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.”

World Fiction Reader Fit Originals Masterpiece

Book:Lectures on Don Quixote

Source: Lectures on Don Quixote