“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.” KnowsGivingWritingHas BeensPainHeavenHoursChanceJourneyReaderBitterHeartacheRelaxationTediumBitter Experience Book:The Moon and Sixpence Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters.” WorldFirstsPersonsCharacterStoriesJourneyShareReaderDeeperInsightFocusedSuitsFirst PersonProtagonistsPersonal Journey Author:Juliet Marillier
“From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.” My OwnJourneyReaderRevelationsInvitedWireMy Own Life Author:Pat Conroy
“Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.” LanguageJourneyReaderReflectionPoeticInwardExileMesmerizing Author:Isabel Allende
“Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with their own moral centers. We might feel those moral centers are mis-calibrated, but they are there and are the rudders that propel them. This makes reading my work a visceral roller coaster, 'cause the reader must embark on the journey of the protagonist equipped only with his or her own moral center.” PeopleFeelsRealMatterCharacterSeemsMightReadingCausesMoralJourneyReaderJudgmentProtagonistsRoller CoasterCoastersVisceralRudders Author:Chris Abani
“Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring. That makes the characters risky in every way and the narrative, a journey of change for the reader. But I make the journey as fun as I can.” WorldWayI CanBookSometimesCharacterShowsFunMoralJourneyTvsReaderNarrativeTv ShowsImplicitSometimes In Life Author:Chris Abani
“I would rather be viewed by the reader as I'm just taking a journey with you, and here's what I'm learning, what are you learning? Oh, you do this better than me. Than to be viewed as kind of like an authority.” KindJourneyReaderAuthority Author:John C. Maxwell
“I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.” ThinkingFeelsWritingTryingStoriesJourneyReaderPages Author:Michael Morpurgo
“For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.” ThinkingWorldHouseSocialWalksJourneyPrideReaderWalkingPrejudiceIndependenceWanderSpheresHikingSolitaryJaneTrekkingStrollingHeroinesSaunteringAustenDarcy Author:Rebecca Solnit
“I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the limits of flesh and blood, beyond the limits of even perhaps life itself, in order to discover some sense of order in what appears to be a disordered universe. I'm using my imagination to find meaning, both for myself and, I hope, for my readers."-Clive Barker” WayWantSelfUsedOrderUniverseImaginationBloodJourneyReaderLimitsFleshRememberedMy ImaginationFlesh And Blood Author:Clive Barker