“I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.” TryingHardStoriesReaderApproachStartingExpertsLecturesStarting Out Author:Michael Pollan
“A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.” DifferentMightAsksViewsNovelReaderConversationStartingPoint Of ViewHopefullyStarting PointDifferent Points Of View Author:Anne Fortier
“Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.” PeopleYearsChildrenSaidStatesReadingUnitedUnited StatesStruggleReaderMovedStartingComicComic StripsGarfield Author:Jim Davis
“There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.” LongImportantActorsBitsHalfFiveOne ThingMonthsReaderStartingVery GoodPreparationUselessRevolutionaryWrapping Author:Kate Winslet
“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.” PeopleYearsLosesForgetReaderStartingGoodsContractsMomentumForget YouStarting Out Author:Jasper Fforde
“I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.” ChildrenChurchReaderStartingBaptistsAvid Author:John Henrik Clarke
“If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect you to be funny, and if you're not, they notice. Whereas if you read a regular op-ed about Israel or the family or medicine, you're not starting with the assumption that you're supposed to laugh.” IfsAudienceLaughingComedyReaderMedicineStartingClubsIsraelAssumptionStand Up ComedyComedy Clubs Author:Dave Barry