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“Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.”

“Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.”

Knows Writing Wells Mean Stories Seems Realizing Reader Obvious Rationale

Book:Tenth of December

Source: Tenth of December

“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.”

Knows Giving Writing Has Beens Pain Heaven Hours Chance Journey Reader Bitter Heartache Relaxation Tedium Bitter Experience

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.”

Knows Writing Two Certain My Own Knowing Reader Limits Capable Two Things Sensibility

Author:Paullina Simons

“People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?”

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.”

Knows Doe Opportunity Interesting Development Reader Suspense Plot Shifting Get Real Really Interesting Narrators

Author:Sara Zarr

“I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.”

Thinking Knows Important Reader Freak

Author:Shania Twain

“A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.”

Knows Dream Cutting Cold Reader Flesh Nightmare Blades Injured Separating Calculating Lucid Dreaming

Author:Del Howison

“Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency”

Knows Persons Book Shows Culture Common Known Knowledge Reader Assuming Newspapers Assumption Remarkable Consistency Identical

Author:Edward Hirsch