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“It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.”

Trying Play Interest Mistake Talking Reader Internet Graves Print Publishing Publication

Author:Denis Dutton

“Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.”

Book Eye Language Reader Exciting Contact Electricity Eccentricity Eye Contact

Author:Nicole Brossard

“As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.”

“I'm not a writer who's preaching some particular philosophy or something but the big questions do concern me and I like to make my readers think and debate and argue with each other and look at some aspect of the world or some act of governance or war or power and have an angle they haven't considered before, and that's something I strive for and hopefully have accomplished.”

Thinking World Looks War Philosophy Bigs Havens Particular Reader Concern Aspect Strive Arguing Debate Hopefully Accomplished Preaching Angle Governance Big Questions

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent it out into the world. A couple of months after publication letters from readers might arrive. And, leaving aside the professional reviews, it is really the reader's opinions that the writer needs. They vote for a book - and a writer - with their hard earned cash every time they go into a bookstore (or online - that's my age showing!) and buy a book.”

World Needs Book Hard Stories Might Age Opinion Alive Months Reader Couple Paper Letters Vote Leaving Online Reviews Cash Publication Bookstores Words On Paper

Author:Michael Scott

“I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is extraordinary - readers from all over the world coming together to discuss, argue and debate scenes and characters from a novel. They add a layer to the story that I cannot write and yes, I will participate in that conversation and answer questions. After all, they are the people I'm writing for and their enthusiasm and questions really pushes me to raise the bar.”

“I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.”

Knows Character Bigs Action Novel Mystery Reader Suspense Stakes Multiple Involving Thrillers Viewpoints

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.”

Reality Reader Citizens Notes Sinner Aesthetic Realism

Book:Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture

Source: Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture

“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

“Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.”

Stories Reader Ears Intimate Revelations Plot Mechanism Pulling Antics

Author:Anne Enright

“A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.”

Feels Made Moments Film Choices Sound Novel Dog Reader Photography Sentences Chosen That Moment Capture Barking Dogs

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.”

Writing Language Forget Communication Reader Strive Mediums Clarity Prose Transparent

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.”

Want Writing Years Book Reader Hundred Details Irrelevant

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.”

Ifs Writing I Can Actors Acting Audience Imagine Reader

Author:Joan Didion

“If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.”

Ifs Reader Vacuums

Author:Joan Didion

“It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres.”

Thinking Kind Book Different Would Be Kids Baby Reader Adults Clubs Satisfied Genre Different Kinds Eclectic Books For Kids

Author:Ann M. Martin

“You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.”

Want Reader All Time Pact

Author:Michael Pollan

“In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.”

Firsts Stills Ends Lines Responsibility Reader Draws Journalist

Author:Michael Pollan

“E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective people used to working in their pajamas!”

People Way Kind Used Roles Reader Unlikely Introspective Pajamas

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“I think the Internet has made things a lot easier. Twitter and Facebook let you really connect to your readers effortlessly!”

Thinking Made Reader Internet Easier Twitter And Facebook

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while the book was fiction, the situations were based on historical realities - some of which were pretty hard to believe.”

Firsts Believe Book Hard Reality Wanted Fiction Situation Share Reader Historical Fascinating Hard To Believe

Author:Julie Klassen

“As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.”

People Want Reading Actors Reader Creatures Limits Findings Asking Magazines Traits Guardian Avid

Author:Zoe Saldana

“You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and it's better than any kind of writing class you'll ever take. You will absorb techniques and then in a lot of cases you can just start writing using the style of the book or the author that you admire and then your own style will emerge out of that. Be a diligent reader and then try to write seriously, professionally and approach everything in writing in a professional way.”

Way Writing Trying Kind Book Class Cases Style Reader Approach Technique Admire Genre Diligent

Author:Homer Hickam

“Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.”

Way Stories Reader Average Guts Associates

Author:Jack Kirby

“I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.”

Believe Happens Reader Yeah Objectives

Author:Jack Kirby

“I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.”

Looks I Can Done Purpose Reader Entertaining

Author:Jack Kirby

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. I don't give a damn for the group, the community, the masses, and so forth.”

Giving Art Important Individual Community Groups Reader Mass Importance Damn Works Of Art Don't Give A Damn I Don't Give A Damn

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.”

Two Artist Realizing Reader Two Things Mystic

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.”

Ifs Emotion Audience Four Reader Mad Scared Glad

Author:Larry Winget

“We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last word. We trust each other. We have our past working life in common, our recombined families, as well as our life as teachers, and we read much of the same literature and have similar esthetics, so there's a simpatico there. But we do disagree and that can be fruitful, even if it's not so great in the moment.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Moments Lasts Past Literature Common Teacher Our Lives Reader Husband My Husband Disagree Our Past Last Words Working Life Simpatico

Author:Dorianne Laux

“My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.”

World Way Book Shows Certain Wish Reader Perception

Author:Robert Greene

“The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.”

People Ifs Book Jobs Guy Can Do Cutting Reader Horror Advantage Theater Efficient Packs Movie Theater One On One

Author:Stephen King

“I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.”

Book Reader Come Up Unchanging

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!”

Writing Reader Meetings Beer Solitary Going Out Signing

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.”

Ifs Want Giving Writing Book Audience Reader Appreciate

Author:Marianne Williamson

“When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.”

Thinking Writing Mind May Ends Action Social Causes Challenges Love Is Reader Criticism Paradigm Provocative

Author:Bell Hooks

“A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.”

Writing Self Community Reader Amount Involved Historical Insight Fund Serving Instruction Academic Unbelievable Consuming Manuals

Author:Gotz Aly

“To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.”

Ifs Different Enough Stories Bits Simple Creation Reader Narrative Transport Different Times

Author:Lydia Davis

“I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.”

Way Writing Believe May Difficult Poet Reader Don't Believe Obscure

Author:Lydia Davis

“I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.”

Ifs Writing Said Able Reader Importance Grandmother Literacy My Grandmother

Author:Kevin Gates

“To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Reader Editors Good Writers

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.”

Writing Reading Reader Editors

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.”

Stories Imagine Reader Sentences Crucial Efficient

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.”

People Writing Book Form Reader Appreciate Various Entertainment Storytelling Publishers Good Writing Good Storytelling

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!”

Writing Reader Hardest Geography Timelines

Author:Michael Scott

“I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a huge chunk of my library with me. Usually, when I am writing one project, I am researching the next or beginning to pull together the material for the book after that.”

Writing Book Together Reading Next Materials Huge Reader Projects Library Chunks

Author:Michael Scott

“I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.”

Age Wanted Young Memories Taken Reader Becoming Library Locals Logical Young Age Librarian Booksellers

Author:Michael Scott

“That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the readers are a lot smarter than the writer. Also, good writing has to do with rewriting. You will never get it right the first time. So you rewrite and rewrite again until you get it right. Until you, and the reader, will be able to visualize what you're writing about.”

Knows Writing Firsts Important Able Remember Fiction Subjects Reader First Time Smarter Non Fiction Good Writing Rewriting

Author:Michael Scott

“For me, the favourite chapters have always been the last chapters in the books. I knew exactly how each book would end - and how the first chapter of the following book would begin. I knew I wanted to leave the readers with answers - and a bunch of new questions!”

Firsts Book Ends Wanted Lasts Answers Reader Following Bunch Favourite Chapters

Author:Michael Scott

“The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.”

Writing Book Inspire Reader Rewards Come Up Profession Up To You

Author:Michael Scott

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