“The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.” KnowsNeedsStillsBookProblemReaderCookingLike MeCooksExplanationRiddleSkipCookery Author:Julia Child
“[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .” IfsHumansDoeTwoEyeSoundHuman BeingsConsciousnessSeaMinutesReaderExplanationHis EyesAwkwardPuzzledCompact Book:The Magic of Shirley Jackson Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson
“As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.” KnowsActionReaderPagesPaintExplanationStrokesSuggestionsSmall Actions Author:Mary Higgins Clark
“Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.” StudyReaderPagesOrdinaryCrossesBoundsFatsExplanationVolumeHuntsDictionaryCommentary Author:D. A. Carson
“It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsImportantHardMomentsAnswersForgetHappenedMysteryReaderApproachExplanationImportant Moments Author:John Darnielle