“A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.” IfsFeelsWellsBookWould BeHalfImagineReaderSticksDescriptionPlight Author:Jesse Ball
“Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as the author can be, it's usually only a reflection of what the reader can interpret, and based on their own personal experiences.” ThinkingFeelsSometimesReaderReflectionPoetry IsTransparentPersonal Experiences Author:Masiela Lusha
“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
“When you write an essay, of course you're going to get pushback, but you're going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You're going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do.” FeelsWritingCoursesCasesReaderAccountsThings To DoLeisureSaneEssaysObjections Author:George Saunders
“It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.” FeelsWritingHardSpeakReaderThemeGradesEssays Author:Tim Winton
“A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it.” FeelsBookShowsAsksHoursAttentionHalfTelevisionReaderDisciplineTweetTelevision ShowsHalf HoursReally Deep Author:Ben H. Winters
“The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world to my reader. I'm not writing a history text on the Four Corners. I'm telling a story that's set there. The setting belongs in the background for the most part, and it's easy for fantasy authors to forget that. That's one of the unfortunate parts of Tolkien's legacy, in my opinion. Read the first hundred pages of the Fellowship of the Ring and you start to get pissed, "Shut up about the Shire's museums! Isn't the world supposed to be in peril or something?"” WorldNeedsFeelsWritingFirstsHelpingStoriesJobsEasyForgetOpinionFantasyFourReaderPagesHundredCornersRingsBackgroundsSettingSettingsSupposed To BeLegacyHelp MeMuseumsUnfortunateShut UpGood JobPerilFellowshipFellowship Of The RingShire Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.” ThinkingFeelsWritingTryingStoriesJourneyReaderPages Author:Michael Morpurgo
“When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.” KnowsFeelsWritingLooksMadeCertainLosesReaderIntegrityCriticalDocuments Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows or forces me to bring something that's supremely me onto the page. I used to think that the speaker of a poem was talking to someone else, to some ideal reader or listener, but now I think that speakers - poets - are talking to themselves. The poem allows you to pose questions that you have you ask of yourself knowing that they are unanswerable.” IfsThinkingFeelsUsedAsksForceTalkingKnowingPoetReaderPagesIdealsInvestmentSpeakersListenersTalking To Someone Author:Tracy K. Smith
“I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers. And it's appropriate, because the writer is getting paid and the reader isn't.” FeelsResponsibilityReaderStandardsPaidAppropriateBetrayedTrust MeDouble StandardUnfaithful Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.” IfsFeelsEnoughPurposeReaderPlease Author:Elmore Leonard
“I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?” IfsFeelsShouldTryingBookCharacterCareDiesEventsReaderGrievingSuperficialPopcornFictional Character Author:George R. R. Martin
“I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.” WayWantFeelsLongStoriesHappensFictionReaderShort StoryAstonishingEverything Happens For A Reason Author:Alice Munro
“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.” FeelsWritingWellsBookDifferentWantedNovelReaderOffersDepthBonesCardsTradingComponentsInnovativeWebsiteMazes Author:Rick Riordan
“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.” IfsThinkingFeelsRealCharacterCareSecretReader Author:Sidney Sheldon
“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.” KnowsFeelsFirstsPersonsCharacterCertainToo MuchReaderProudNarrativeTwilightFirst PersonFirst Person Narrative Author:Kristen Stewart
“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