“There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader ... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.” WritingPersonsI CanWholeDiesReaderNotionAverageSatDetectivesNotebookHomicide Author:David Simon
“I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.” MightReaderAverageGems Author:Terri Windling
“Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys, it helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.” PeopleThinkingGivingLittlesCharacterHelpingProblemRealityGuyWishClassMiddleEventsReaderOrdinaryAverageMiddle ClassScenariosMain CharactersWilder Author:Bentley Little
“Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.” KnowsWantBookHardGivenReaderOffersImportanceDollarsAverageCreatorTinyDespiteComicCorporateShopsAbandonedComic BookSelectionScopeFractionsBook Readers Author:Scott McCloud
“I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.” IfsWorryReaderAverage Author:Judith Krantz
“One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.” PeopleCharacterArtistReaderHabitInvolvedAverageGreat ThingsComicDevotedCasual Author:Charlie Huston
“A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think it's better to write as small as you can, to start scenes with little personal details or people who are doing average every day human things. That, to me, lets the average reader into that person's life. "Yeah I eat breakfast. I take a shower."” PeopleThinkingWritingHumansLittlesPersonsBigsReaderSceneYeahAverageDetailsBreakfastShowersUntrue Author:Don Winslow
“The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.” CompassionReaderSorrowAverageDisappointmentContemplatingFortitude Author:Nellie L. McClung
“I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?” IfsThinkingDifficultReaderSafeAverageWinnerParisTopicsPublishersThrillersDisinterestedPlaying It SafeBangkok Author:John Burdett
“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.” WayStoriesReaderAverageGutsAssociates Author:Jack Kirby
“One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy of writing, and reading, we can discuss topics that are a little touchy, a bit embarrassing, and feel less alone in the process. Feeling consumed by memories from high school. Feeling wimpy. Feeling time-obsessed. Yearning for our fathers. Wishing we were taller, or shorter, or less average. To name just a few.” FeelsWritingLittlesFeelingsSchoolReadingFatherOpportunityNamesWishBitsProcessMemoriesWonderfulOne ThingReaderHigh SchoolAverageObsessedPrivacyYearningTopicsEmbarrassingConsumedOur FatherWriting And ReadingConfidentialTouchy Author:Ralph Keyes
“I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV and watch black-and-white cowboy movies. I'm a painfully slow reader. It's really bad as an actor, because you have to read a lot of scripts. It takes me like an average of three hours to read a script, which is pretty poor.” UsedThreeReadingActorsBlackHoursWhitePoorWatchesFrontsTvsReaderAverageScriptsTake MeBlack And WhiteCowboyCowboy Movie Author:Will Poulter
“The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.” IfsLittlesBookTermSecretReaderRateAverageDirtyPublishingPiracy Author:Charles Stross
“Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.” PeopleThinkingFeelsWantedMiddleReaderSittingMy FriendsTablesEverydayAverageHearingDinnerEastCuriousMiddle EastEveryday LifeTextureSitting AroundBest PlaceDinner Table Author:Annia Ciezadlo