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“I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.”

Thinking Children I Can Differences Reader Promise Novelists Lifelong

Author:Rick Riordan

“I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.”

Ifs Mistake Reader Details Careful Call Me Be Careful

Author:Rick Riordan

“I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.”

Reading Deals Lord Cases Reader Rings Reluctant Love Of Reading

Author:Rick Riordan

“I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.”

Thinking World Way Writing Two Young Parent Numbers Childhood Middle Reader Grades Trapped Adulthood Two Worlds

Author:Rick Riordan

“Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience.”

Feels Writing Wells Book Different Wanted Novel Reader Offers Depth Bones Cards Trading Components Innovative Website Mazes

Author:Rick Riordan

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”

Book Stories Happens Reading Next Voice Four Wall Reader Storytelling Reading Books Roof Book Reading Book Readers Four Walls Reading Stories

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.”

Thinking Writing Mind Literature Wonder Fans Reader Western Contemporary Appeals Asia

Author:Tom Robbins

“Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.”

Book Shows Order Audience Five Reader Percent Insight Wit Consistently Impressed Viewers Columns Restraining Restraining Orders

Author:Richard Roeper

“Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.”

Should Writing Mind Wells Heart Soul Able Jobs Voice Reader Reflection Who You Are Sentences Your Soul Seducing Writing Voice

Author:Meg Rosoff

“'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.”

Book Kids Generations Reader Internet Gratitude Series Depth Debt Eras Harry Potter Potters Feats Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Gary Ross

“Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.”

Ifs Mind Looks Heart Lost Grows Reader Sight Philosophical Absence Leap Advise Sagacity Absence Makes The Heart Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder Of Sight Out Of Mind

Author:Leo Rosten

“Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.”

Men May Reader Ordinary Prejudice Forgiving Paradox

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.”

People Writing Humans Human Nature Students Keys Reader Skills Concerned Insight Communicators

Author:William Bernbach

“All of my books now come from readers' ideas.”

Book Ideas Reader

Author:Ann Rule

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

Ifs World Writing Book Reading Return Reader Drink Offers Versions Beer Reading Books Book Reading Books And Reading Book Readers This Is A Book Inspiring Book

Book:In good faith

Source: In good faith

“I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.”

Writing Book Reading Enjoy Behinds Reader Standing Shoulders

Author:Salman Rushdie

“As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Kind Wanted Film Used Novel Reader Instance Flashback Compression

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Kind Play Feelings Emotion Novel Comedy Written Reader Irony Capture Indirect Stealth Etcetera

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Two Reason Film Literature Given Reader Difficulty China Instance Chinese

Author:Salman Rushdie

“A book worth reading is worth buying.”

Book Reading Reader Buying Reading Books Book Reading Worth Reading Buying Books

Author:John Ruskin

“To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.”

Ifs Way Stories Happens Care Jobs Seeing Theory Reader Caring Take Care Things Happen

Author:George Saunders

“For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.”

Firsts Littles Art I Can Would Be Three Games Bits Reader Pages Ears Intelligent Assuming Definitions Dropping Hints

Author:George Saunders

“When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.”

World Want Littles Stories Reader Percent Awake Short Story

Author:George Saunders

“When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.”

Needs Fate Reader Tongue Translate Select

Book:The Physyology of Taste

Source: The Physyology of Taste

“The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.”

Ifs Want Government Views Week Wind Reader Paper Late News Holiday Weekend Saturday Papers Friday Bad News Best Times

Author:Bob Schieffer

“A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.”

Should Reader Criticism Should Have Critics Stomach

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“For people who are readers, reading is important to them.”

People Important Reading Reader

Author:Jeff Bezos

“I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.”

Way Writing Might Views Reader Prize Very Happy

Author:Will Self

“Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Reader Humorous Facets Poignant

Author:Vikram Seth

“Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.”

Might Wanted Reader Dear Silly Being Silly

Author:Vikram Seth

“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”

People Writing Book Ends Turns Sleep Reader Pages Chapters Going To Sleep Writing From The Heart

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Real Character Care Secret Reader

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.”

Years Firsts Stories Would Be Reader Hollywood

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.”

Knows Book Reading Creation Reader Conventional Innovative Baths Conspirators Good Reads

Author:Augustine Birrell

“I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.”

Mean Morning Gone Reader Bills Sake Clock Session Nebraska

Book:Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith

Source: Controversy Between New York Tribune and Gerrit Smith

“My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.”

Wells Parent Reader Educated Sophisticated Humanistic

Author:Patti Smith

“Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.”

Mind Character Stories Environment Wonderful Reader Sells Impression Lasting Involving Lasting Impressions

Author:Wilbur Smith

“The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'”

Men Want Giving Has Beens Asks Rights Teaching Reader Politician Vote Fishes Versus Adages Sauce Fries French Fries Basic Rights

Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”

Writing Mean Book Literature Wish Reader Difficulty

Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it's a first-person narrative.”

Knows Feels Firsts Persons Character Certain Too Much Reader Proud Narrative Twilight First Person First Person Narrative

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”

Want Writing Ideas Artist Interest Reader Pure Authority Intense Jail Dictatorship Oxygen Gratification Envied Autocracy

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.”

Want Feels Writing Reason Emotion Accepting Flower Reader Yeah Reactions

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.”

Thinking Fiction Reader My Family Encouragement Discouragement

Author:Amy Tan

“If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!”

Ifs Writing Book Stories Reading Interesting Secret Written Reader Tales Dull Volume Insipid

Book:The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)

Source: The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)

“I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.”

Known Reader My Time

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.”

Literature Reader Ambition Surprise Passages Muse Castles Compatible Homely

Book:The Bertrams: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Bertrams: Easyread Large Edition

“Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.”

Different Given Felt Reader News Models Access Newspapers Online Suspects Entitlement Hindsight Entitlement Programs

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.”

“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”

Writing Book Order Literature Reader

Author:Mark Twain

“There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.”

Writing Book Feelings Wanted America Rooms Middle Reader Clubs Spread Meaningful Lovely Discourse Living Room Contributing Book Club Middle America

Author:Abraham Verghese

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