Best reader & happens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?”

Ifs Thinking Men Happens Truth Reader Mad Beast Sane

“Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.”

Happens Reading Literature Process Practice Reader Bookshelves

Author:Terry Eagleton

“I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.”

Trying Happens Creative Reader Careful Thoughtful Helpful Editors Midwife

Author:Kevin Sampsell

“A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!”

Ifs Kind May Stories Happens Century Position Reader Scene Succeed Careful Ghost Ghost Stories

Book:Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

Source: Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

“Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.”

Ifs Men Writing May Might Happens Speak Grows Sound Reader Periods Understood Advantage Notion Sentences Every Man Ease Consideration Sentiments Elegant Transfers

Book:The Idler: With Additional Essays

Source: The Idler: With Additional Essays

“Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.”

Ifs Happens Sex Women Liberty Virtue Wise Crime Reader Lucky Good Things Denied Forbidden Being Wise

Author:Marie de Gournay

“I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.”

Thinking Happens Would Be Next Dark Willing Reader Tricks Cards

Author:George Saunders

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”

Ifs Men Way Feels Mind May I Can Book Happens Strong Reader Touched Thank God I Can Read

Author:Walter Tevis

“Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.”

Way Different Sometimes Happens Reading Individual Pieces Reader Different Ways

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.”

Book Real Happens Literature Imagine Reader Pages Definitions Real Power

Book:The Last Bookaneer: A Novel

Source: The Last Bookaneer: A Novel

“Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.”

Writing Trying Kind Two Stories Problem Happens Next Wonder Achieve Reader Balance Concern Toes Unpredictable

Author:Bill Watterson

“The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.”

Thinking Matter Helping Stories Might Happens Challenges Vision Reader Mechanic Collaborating

Author:John Green

“Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.”

Humans Wells Body Happens Reader Fit Essence Down And Size Newspapers Flying Desert Display Human Body Rabbits Eagles Zoom Scanning Body Work

Author:Russ Wilcox

“I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.”

Believe Happens Reader Yeah Objectives

Author:Jack Kirby

“My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.”

Mind Whole Feelings Happens Can Do Fields Reader Intellectual Terror Tales Genre Best Things

Author:Stephen King

“In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.”

“Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.”

Ifs Want Writing Home Happens Party Fine Reader Reviews

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.”

Giving Writing Humans Reality Happens Reader Fairs Insight Rings Boxing Boxers

Author:Lennox Lewis

“People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.”

People Knows Want Humans Happens Events Reader Built Nonfiction Twins Pillars

Author:William Zinsser

“"Unputdownable" is, I suppose, something we all dream of, maybe without knowing it. I realized, some time ago, that a novel can hold a lot, and it made sense that this one was not of the sleek and economical variety, but instead the "full" type. Novel as piñata. And the reader does the whacking. I had a central idea, which is to look at what happens to talent over time.”

Looks Doe Made Ideas Dream Happens Novel Knowing Talent Type Reader I Realized Variety

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form of memoir that creates an eerie reader space of intimacy that is only "real" in the space of the text.”

Kind Real Happens Form Artist Certain Space Successful Reader Memoir All Kinds Intimacy Eerie

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"”

Way Different Reality Happens Past Courses Asks Games Felt Reader Details Betray Unfair Involving Fair Game

Author:Sasa Stanisic

“With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people, and it has to make sense and end in a way that is satisfying. So I spend a lot more time thinking about that. Then the writing itself usually is easier for me, because I know where it's going.”

People Thinking Knows Way Writing Important Ends Matter Stories Happens Novel Reader Easier Make Sense More Time Satisfying

Author:Dave Barry

“I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.”

Knows Way Two Stories Use Happens Next Attention Novel Reader Involved Method Technique Two Things Listeners Restriction Vary

Author:William Golding

“If readers like The Thorn and the Blossom, which I would call literary fantasy, I think they would like books such as Elizabeth Hand's Mortal Love, Catherynne Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, and Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen.”

Ifs Thinking Book Hands Happens Girl Fantasy Reader Stranger Things Happen Ships Mortals Links

Author:Theodora Goss

“I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.”

Knows Mean Stories Happens Imagination Attention Reader Details Prose Short Story Ambiguity Literal Orbit Attention Span Story Writers

Author:Matthew Healy

“Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a précis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make everything right.”

Writing Trying Book Bigs Government Happens Political Dog Reader Copies Impressed Political Science Hayek Road To Serfdom Friedrich Hayek

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.”

Doe Two Moments Happens Reading Reader Kissing Fishes Come Up Surface

Author:George Saunders

“I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.”

World Believe Persons Might Happens Next I Believe Reader Meetings Next Day Positively Alterations

Author:George Saunders

“With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have to have a plot - I say "obviously," although I think a lot of fiction doesn't, and nothing seems to happen. But to me, there should be something that happens, and it should be at least vaguely plausible. And because the readers are going to be with these characters for a long time, you have to get to know them and like them and want to know what happens to them.”

Thinking Knows Want Should Long Character Seems Happens Fiction Novel Reader Long Time Plot Plausible

Author:Dave Barry

“It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.”

People Ifs Real Matter Character Happens Care Reader Pages Don't Care Vivid

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.”

Happens Novel Reader Hero Curious Suspense Novelists Suspense Novels

Author:Mary McCarthy

“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.”

Way Want Feels Long Stories Happens Fiction Reader Short Story Astonishing Everything Happens For A Reason

Author:Alice Munro

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”

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Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.”

Ifs Way Stories Happens Care Jobs Seeing Theory Reader Caring Take Care Things Happen

Author:George Saunders

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