“I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.” MenJobsEvilAcceptingReaderBattleLuckyExpectationsPressureCoalRelentlessStressfulDeadlineMiningNecessary Evil Author:Grant Morrison
“I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.” TurnsAcceptingReaderTargetDemographics Author:Simon Winchester
“When I wrote The Interestings, I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.” GivingBookFeelingsWantedMovingAcceptingReaderPassingPassingsBack And ForthTime PassingTime Passes Author:Meg Wolitzer
“My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting.” FeelsWritingCharacterFeelingsCertainCan DoAcceptingSawsStyleReaderPagesMediumsFlip Author:Daniel Clowes
“We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic. I accept that fact. My house has thousands of books in it, and I've started to look at them completely differently. They now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. Their use value has become negligible to me because I'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.” LooksImportantBookFactsUseSeemsValuesHouseAcceptingObjectsReaderPeriodsRelevantAnalog Author:Will Self
“I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.” IfsChildrenLanguageAcceptingReader Author:Salman Rushdie
“The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.” FactsStoriesDifferencesAcceptingMysteryWillingReaderDemandSolutionsFundamentalsGhostEffectivenessGhost Stories Author:Bennett Cerf
“In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot.” NeedsFilmGivenImaginationAcceptingReaderAwfulEngaged Author:Neil Gaiman
“If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after; I want the reader to accept the setting and the mindset of the characters, so we can get on with the story.” IfsWantCharacterStoriesGivenAcceptingReaderMindsetSettingSettingsPremises Author:Karin Tidbeck
“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.” WantFeelsWritingReasonEmotionAcceptingFlowerReaderYeahReactions Author:J. Michael Straczynski