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“My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.”

Trying Reader Delight Theatrical

Author:Mark Leyner

“When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.”

Firsts Book Turns Novel Reader Pages Delight

Author:Jane Smiley

“There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.”

Change Reader Circumstances Fortune Delight Variety

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.”

Firsts Wells Judging Reader Standards Criticism Delight Reasonable

Book:The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe

Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe

“Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize--to learn--that in life we are not the readers but the authors of our own narratives.”

Believe Realizing Fate Reader Terror Delight Storytelling Narrative

Author:Margaret Visser

“In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?”

Ifs Age Life Is Purpose Literature Enjoy Voice Reader Delight Standardization

Author:Dana Gioia

“Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.”

Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works

“Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.”

Kind Reader Letters Delight Endless All Kinds Ineffable

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.”

Ifs Men World Found Wish Study Return Reader Miracle Delight Profession Occasions

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.”

Ifs Should Done Stories Reading Reader Judgment Criticism Method Forgiving Sake Delight Entertainment Strict Candor Candid Good Humor

Author:Sarah Fielding

“Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers' hearts long after they've turned the last page. ONLY IN MY DREAMS is pure Eve Byron, which means it's a pure delight. I fell in love with Lorelei and Dane, two of the most delightful characters I've encountered in a very long time. Byron's magical touch never falters. ONLY IN MY DREAMS is a surefire hit!”

Men Heart Mean Long Two Character Dream Lasts Three Reader Pure Pages Long Time Men And Women Delight Lists Permanent Delightful Byron

Author:Barbara Bretton

“Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.”

Reader Performances Originals Delight Comic Outrage Dazzling

Author:Orville Prescott

“... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.”

Self Reader Delight Denial Hardship Invited Ridicule Foreigners Understatement

Author:Evelyn Waugh