“Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.” PeopleGivingLooksBookNovelReaderGive MeResponseAlphas Author:Brandon Sanderson
“As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.” ThinkingLooksPoliticalViewsReaderRangeGuidancePolitical View Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.” LooksJoyWomenReader Author:Amy Dickinson
“Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.” KnowsNeedsLooksMatterNumbersKnow HowMinutesInformationSourceReaderAuthority Author:David Gelernter
“Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.” WorldLooksSaidDifferentNovelReaderLettersLook UpComplimentFinestDictionaryDifferent WorldsSingle WordLexicon Author:Randall Jarrell
“I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.” WantWritingLooksWould BeWishWrittenReaderGoodnessProseTransparentDescribingWant Him Author:V. S. Naipaul