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“There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.”

Thinking Knows Want Should Writing Trying Firsts Littles Ideas Stories Lines One Thing Theory Reader Tough Opening Invites Tricky Jars Moonbeams

Author:Stephen King

“The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.”

Way Should Book Different Individual Novel Creative Reader Finished Different Ways Invites Life Experience Individual Life

Author:Alan Lightman

“A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.”

Want Kind Stories Dream Lost Reader Ease Invites Superficial Slides

Author:Steven Erikson

“So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that we find exceptionally suggestive, apposite, or musical - are usually adjudged to be 'poetic'. ... The work of the poet is to contribute a text that will firstly invite such a reading; and secondly reward such a reading.”

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Author:Don Paterson

“Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader....Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come in, come in have a seat. I'm going to tell you what happened.' Perhaps my writing comes off as conversational...and that takes effort.”

Writing Sometimes Community Effort Happened Human Nature Reader Individuality Seats Invites

Author:David Sedaris

“In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.”

Source: Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation

“I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.”

Thinking Needs Reading Reader Distraction Invites

Author:David Starkey

“Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.”

Reader Chaos Invites

Author:David Carson

“When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.”

People Thinking World Artist Struggle Reader Paper Invites Outside World

Author:Adrian Tomine

“I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense of arguing for specific theses. As I remark, there's a style of philosophy - present in writers from Plato to Rawls - that invites readers to consider a certain class of phenomena in a new way. In the book, I associate this, in particular, with my good friend, the eminent philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, who practices it extremely skilfully.”

“I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.”

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Author:Julie Berry