“It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.” PeopleWantWritingCertainRealizingTypeReaderPlease Author:Dennis Lehane
“Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.” KnowsWritingWellsMeanStoriesSeemsRealizingReaderObviousRationale Book:Tenth of December Source: Tenth of December
“My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.” IfsKnowsShouldWritingWellsLongBookRealizingWrittenTheoryReaderLet MeSticksHopefullyEntertaining Author:Charles de Lint
“Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize--to learn--that in life we are not the readers but the authors of our own narratives.” BelieveRealizingFateReaderTerrorDelightStorytellingNarrative Author:Margaret Visser
“We were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.” IfsWayBookCharacterSpeakRealizingReaderDaughterFemaleTreatsProfessionComicPregnantApologizingComic BookFemale CharactersWere Pregnant Author:Matt Fraction
“Your humble correspondent realizes that many readers are left-wing, anti-string-theory fighters. So they probably smoke marijuana and this is my modest attempt to help them.” HelpingLeftRealizingTheoryReaderWingsHumbleFighterSmokeStringsMarijuanaModestLeft WingString Theory Author:Lubos Motl
“Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.” WritingMayHas BeensArtMomentsSeemsCoursesGoalRealizingSituationDoubtCreationReaderProvePhotographyAimSeriesImpressionHeelsLensesGrotesqueGreat MomentsCameramanArt Of WritingRafters Author:E. B. White
“Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.” TwoArtistRealizingReaderTwo ThingsMystic Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.” KnowsReadingRealizingCasesFantasyReaderRacismScarySexism Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.” PeopleThinkingWantTwoBigsMightRealizingReaderApproachSecondsBowlsEmbarrassingToilets Author:Augusten Burroughs
“I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.” WayRealizingReaderLetting GoLove To Read Author:Richard Bach
“I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.” BelieveEnoughRealizingNovelReaderSmartSophisticatedNarrators Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.” WorldWantLooksKindBookCharacterShowsArtistHateRealizingMy OwnReaderOffersDecidedResponseSentencesVisualsCollaborationShow MeImaginativeHalfwayJacketsIllustration Author:Jonathan Lethem
“You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.” IfsThinkingNeedsImportantBookForceWaitingRealizingPoetReaderImportanceEchoesPublishCliffsDropping Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.” ThinkingNeedsWritingSometimesFormCertainRealizingLinesReaderMusicalScoreResolution Author:Nicole Krauss
“Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their eyes. But in fact they hear what they are reading far more than you realize.” MindMayFactsSeemsEyeTogetherReadingSoundRealizingBearsReaderAbsurd Book:On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.” Has BeensRealizingOur LivesReaderEnormous Author:C. S. Lewis
“The book is about zombies, in that it is the over-arching theme, but what's going on is the story of these people and how these survivors deal. I think that's so much more of an interesting story, and that's what really gets and hooks these readers into the book and the show. It's a mix of fans of drama, fans of AMC, fans of horror and fans of Frank [Darabont]. It's a lot of people just coming together and realizing a genre doesn't have to be fixed in one specific detail.” PeopleThinkingBookStoriesShowsTogetherRealizingInterestingDealsFansReaderDramaHorrorDetailsGenreFixedThemeSurvivorFrankHookZombieComing TogetherInteresting Stories Author:Steven Yeun
“Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an essay, a novel, a biography - and at one point you realize you don't know where, as a reader, you want to be. Where are you going with this text? What is the goal? How are you supposed to interpret what you're reading? And people's responses vary - some dislike it, and are put off by the confusion, the lack of comprehension.” PeopleKnowsWantBookReadingGoalRealizingNovelTypeReaderPicksResponseConfusionDislikeBiographiesEssaysVaryComprehension Author:Sergio Chejfec
“Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.” PeopleSometimesRealizingCommonStudyReaderLaysCommittedExplainingEvangelical Author:D. A. Carson
“It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as young as eight or nine years old. But then they grow with the reader. Book Two is bigger, Book Three is even bigger. And they grow more violent and more confrontational.” YearsTwoImportantBookKidsYoungThreeGrowsRealizingReaderBiggerSeriesEightNineViolentMarchIntroductionNine YearsBook Readers Author:Andrew Aydin
“I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would realize sometimes when you write a book, people think you're an expert and that's not always true.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingBookSometimesHelpingRealizingHonestReaderExperts Author:John C. Maxwell