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“The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when works which were once capable of instructing and delighting thousands lose their power, and works, before neglected, emerge into renown.”

Mind Book Lying Loses Reader Taste Capable Prosperity Neglected There Comes A Time Renown

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.”

Thinking May Important Book Dream Loses Numbers Novel Written Reader My Favorite Finest Fear Of Death Tribute Somewhere In Time

Author:Richard Matheson

“A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.”

Way Mean Children Stories Literature Loses Imagination Alive Growing Reader Unique Dancing Tales Encounters Listeners Good Story Lively Arrivals Spirited Children's Literature

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.”

Way Littles Reading Found Loses Rooms Failing Subjects Reader Corners My Way Sufficient License Carelessness Inattention

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.”

Character Loses Team Football Reader Jokes Soccer Opera Minimum Soap Dialect Soap Operas Soccer Team

Author:Peter Robinson

“I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.”

Writing Loses Reader Genius Vulgar Intercourse Authorship Veneration

Book:Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron

Source: Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron

“You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.”

Ifs Stories Loses Clear Reader Connections Details Vague Personal Connection

Book:Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

“You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.”

Ifs Persons Book Whole Eye Loses Attention Fiction Ignorance Reader Science Fiction Pay Attention Engineers Spoil Blink Chemist Anthropologists Blink Of An Eye

Author:Robert Caro

“It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.”

Knows Needs Giving Trying Persons Loses Lines Attention Reader Six Research Tools Journalism Journalist Interviews

Author:Isabel Allende

“What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.”

Writing Trying Moving Loses Too Much Particular Reader Series Harm Genre Thrive Self Harm Moving Away

Author:John Connolly

“I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't mine. I work hard at grounding the world as much as possible in the world we do recognize.”

Thinking World Hard Loses Lines Mines Hard Work Fine Reader Intention Fine Lines Grounding

Author:Laurie Foos

“You can write a 1st paragraph that continues the same thought you expressed in your headline. If you stop a reader with a headline about house paint, you can be sure of at least one thing about that reader: He wants more info about house paint. You will not lose him as long as you continue to give him what he wants.”

Ifs Want Giving Writing Long House Loses One Thing Reader Paint Headlines Paragraph

Author:John Caples

“I only know what it's like to be an author with social media. I can't compare. I do think we lose the mystery of the author. Today, I get tons of e-mails and Facebook messages from readers, and my goal with Twitter and Facebook is, if someone reaches out to me, I'm going to respond to them. I don't want to be an elitist author who is untouchable. I'm just a regular person, too. I will always respond to everybody.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Persons I Can Today Social Goal Loses Mystery Media Reader Messages Social Media Compare Reach Out Mail Elitist Untouchables Twitter And Facebook

Author:Matt de la Pena

“For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.”

People Years Loses Forget Reader Starting Goods Contracts Momentum Forget You Starting Out

Author:Jasper Fforde

“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.”

Want Feels Book Stories Loses Reader Offers Invites Takeaways

Author:Julie Berry

“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.”

Trying Children Used Fun Loses Lines Rooms Fashion Wall Reader Stones Wander Narrative Dry Paranoia Railway Barns Stone Walls

Author:Suhayl Saadi

“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.”

Knows Feels Writing Looks Made Certain Loses Reader Integrity Critical Documents

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

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