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“There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.”

Ifs Knows Should May Art Sometimes Character Seems Reader Works Of Art Passages

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.”

Ifs Painting Reader Advertising Abstract Advertisements Advertising Agencies Abstract Painting

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.”

Ifs Needs Looks Business Economy Reader Pages Cents Advertisements Editorials Advertising Agencies

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.”

Ifs Writing Book Reading Creative Reader Range

Author:Ben Okri

“What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.”

People Ifs Hard Kids School Middle Reader High School Coming Out Competent Middle School

Author:James Patterson

“I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!”

Ifs Writing Past Moving Grows Fiction Growing Up Reader Adults Teenager Cents

Author:Jodi Picoult

“For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.”

Ifs Mind Important Care Asks Opinion Issues Reader Don't Care I Don't Care Controversial Outlines Facets Controversial Issues

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.”

Ifs Mistake Reader Details Careful Call Me Be Careful

Author:Rick Riordan

“Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.”

Ifs Mind Looks Heart Lost Grows Reader Sight Philosophical Absence Leap Advise Sagacity Absence Makes The Heart Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder Of Sight Out Of Mind

Author:Leo Rosten

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

Ifs World Writing Book Reading Return Reader Drink Offers Versions Beer Reading Books Book Reading Books And Reading Book Readers This Is A Book Inspiring Book

Book:In good faith

Source: In good faith

“As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Kind Wanted Film Used Novel Reader Instance Flashback Compression

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Kind Play Feelings Emotion Novel Comedy Written Reader Irony Capture Indirect Stealth Etcetera

Author:Salman Rushdie

“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

“The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.”

Ifs Want Government Views Week Wind Reader Paper Late News Holiday Weekend Saturday Papers Friday Bad News Best Times

Author:Bob Schieffer

“Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Reader Humorous Facets Poignant

Author:Vikram Seth

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Real Character Care Secret Reader

Author:Sidney Sheldon

“If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!”

Ifs Writing Book Stories Reading Interesting Secret Written Reader Tales Dull Volume Insipid

Book:The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)

Source: The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)

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