“The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.” KnowsShouldLittlesDoeHas BeensMadeBookRealSelfReasonCharacterStoriesHandsMightFacesFunReaderPicksFamiliarFactorsSpotsTitlesReferencingFamiliar FacesBook Titles Author:Charles de Lint
“Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders is the perfect mystery for educated, intelligent readers.” CharacterRomanceFunPerfectMysteryReaderGayMurderIntelligentWittyEducatedProseOver The Top Author:Rhys Bowen
“Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?” FunReaderSurpriseAlternativesAwakeExpecting Author:Aaron Belz
“I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.” FunStuffReaderAncientGreeceEnthusiasticAncient GreeceJust For Fun Author:Steven Pressfield
“I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.” WantGivingSometimesLastsFunHoursPleasureDealsReaderImpressionFascinatingDevotional Author:Frederick Buechner
“And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.” Would BeFunStuffWonderfulReaderPublishersAnthology Author:Ellen Hopkins
“I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.'” IfsThinkingGivingFeelsTryingLittlesDoeSometimesStatesFunPresidentUnitedUnited StatesWrittenHonestReaderVersionsVeilsAnnoyed Author:Maureen Dowd
“I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.” PeopleWritingLanguageFunEnjoyInterestBehindsReaderInternetSpreadBlogsDownloads Author:Paulo Coelho
“I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.” FunSubjectsReaderOrdinaryUnusualConvincing Author:Susan Orlean
“The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it.” WritingKindFunSecretReaderPaperNervousAlliesLocksFilesTrue LifePasswords Author:Julie Klausner
“A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle.” BookFunEasyDesignReaderSexyTricksLoudDullPlusBusVocabularyObligedMotorcyclePassengersCurriculumApprovedBaggagePicture BooksRosters Author:Mo Willems
“I met Shannon Hale through some friends and family. I was interested in her book called Princess Academy, which is just a very sweet, Newbery-nominated fairy tale for young readers. She was like, "Oh, actually I have something else for you." She gave me Austenland. The next morning, I'm sure I called her and I was like, "Let's make this movie." It is so fun. It just felt so girly and great and a great vehicle for the weird Hess comedy.” BookYoungNextFunFeltMorningComedySweetReaderMetsTalesFairyPrincessVehicleFairy TaleFamily And FriendsAcademyGirlyHaleVery SweetShannon Author:Jerusha Hess
“With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.” PeopleFunTalkingReaderBecomingObjectivesFringePeople TalkingAvid Author:John Noble
“Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever I want and the unmediated connection with readers are the payoff.” WantWritingDifferentFunReaderConnectionsPrintJournalBloggingPayoffJournal Writing Author:Kate Christensen
“Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring. That makes the characters risky in every way and the narrative, a journey of change for the reader. But I make the journey as fun as I can.” WorldWayI CanBookSometimesCharacterShowsFunMoralJourneyTvsReaderNarrativeTv ShowsImplicitSometimes In Life Author:Chris Abani
“I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.” ThinkingNeedsShouldKindSelfMightFunStuffSoundInterestingSubjectsReaderProveAddExpectedEvidentProve It Author:Lorin Stein
“It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.” BookHardWholeKidsFunVoiceChallengesAttitudeNovelReaderBattleAuthorityAdultsEnvironmentalWhole LifeFoolishNarrativeGreedyArbitraryGrownupsKids LoveIrreverentSmartassNarrative Voice Author:Carl Hiaasen
“Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.” WritingFunReaderHaving Fun Author:Phillip Lopate
“I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull that I don't understand why someone would write strictly realistic stories, given the almost limitless freedom fiction provides. I don't see the point of making believe if you're not going to actually make believe: hang your ass out in the wind, push at every boundary, make almost unreasonable demands on your reader's willingness to suspend disbelief. This is dangerous, and prone to failure, but that's part of what makes it fun.” IfsWritingMindBelieveIdeasStoriesBigsRealityGivenFunFictionDangerousWindReaderDemandExcitedBoundariesAssDullWillingnessRealisticLimitlessDisbeliefUnreasonableMake BelieveBig Ideas Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more fun to wander than to be guided, and you could do it in those days with freedom and without paranoia. In similar fashion, I try to allow the reader room to wander, even to meander, to almost lose themselves and their grip of the narrative.” TryingChildrenUsedFunLosesLinesRoomsFashionWallReaderStonesWanderNarrativeDryParanoiaRailwayBarnsStone Walls Author:Suhayl Saadi