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“I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.”

Thinking Writing Teacher Reader Writing For Yourself

Author:Avi

“This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.”

Thinking Giving Mind Kind Enough Reading Materials Reader Collections Load Mistaken Nourishment

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

“With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If we get back at a decent hour, let's go and have a glass of wine." We'd always think it would be a great idea, but then get to the end of the day and then go [acts drowsy and blabs]. It was very difficult for everybody.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ideas Ends Would Be Difficult Hours Reader Wine Glasses Decent The End Of The Day Get Back Berlin Great Idea Shattered Wine Glass Drowsy

Author:Kate Winslet

“We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.”

Thinking Knows Government Guy Lost Simple Support Reader Pure Dollars Contribution Each Day Cents Transactions Tidy

Author:Dave Eggers

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Important Book Force Waiting Realizing Poet Reader Importance Echoes Publish Cliffs Dropping

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.”

Thinking Soul Left Sky Reader Exercise Invisible Immortal Disposition Daddy Santa Baskets Santa Claus Immortal Soul

Author:Charles Stross

“It's insane to be a writer and not be a reader. When I'm writing I'm more likely to be reading four or five books at once, just in bits and pieces rather than subjecting myself to a really brilliant book and thinking, "Well what's the point of me writing anything?" I'm more likely to read a book through when I take a break from writing.”

Thinking Writing Wells Book Reading Bits Break Five Pieces Four Reader Brilliant Insane Bits And Pieces

Author:Markus Zusak

“I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.”

Ifs Thinking Real Stories Together Darkness Sadness Reader Tragedy Being Real Happiness And Sadness

Author:Alan Lightman

“I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.”

Thinking Moving Race Class Generations Reader Classic

Author:Rita Dove

“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.”

Thinking Needs Writing Sometimes Form Certain Realizing Lines Reader Musical Score Resolution

Author:Nicole Krauss

“If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transfusion, given from the heart of the poet to the heart of the reader. Seek after poems that live inside you, poems that move through your veins.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Heart Moving Given Blood Poet Reader Veins Blood Transfusion

Author:Ralph Fletcher

“To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Hard America Moving Grows Struggle Alive Taught Reader Appreciate

Author:Alice Walker

“I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.”

Thinking Giving Doubt Reader Benefits Benefit Of The Doubt

Author:Alonso Duralde

“I think as long as you're straight with people, as long as you honor ground rules, as long as you serve your readers, you're going to get the door opened for you.”

People Thinking Long Doors Reader Honor Ground Rules

Author:Mark Leibovich

“I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a questionnaire and they could figure out what I'm about. But I don't think my job is to tell you that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Book Jobs Figures Reader Questionnaires

Author:T.C. Boyle

“A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.”

Thinking World Way Should Desire Design Serious Reader Following Newspapers Objectives Evening Gossip Royal Compulsion Royal Family

Author:Umberto Eco

“I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.”

Thinking Knows Writing Turns Reader Mirrors Listeners Viewers

Author:Claudia Rankine

“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

“A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.”

Thinking Should Stories Black White Interesting Reader Setting Settings Black And White Interesting Things

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction

“The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.”

Thinking Book Sometimes Would Be Reading Mistake Brain Sky Dangerous Reader Paper Ordinary Library Tricks Privacy Shelves Ink Printed Mundane Commonplace Fireworks Chained

Book:Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)

Source: Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)

“But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.”

Thinking Giving Art Stories Moving Energy Produce Reader Exciting Not Sure Short Story Minors Thrill Great Art Amusing Rapture

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Long Ends Use Might Simple Reader Expectations Thirds Sentences Statements Great Men Prose Maxims Qualifications Short Words Long Words

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'”

Thinking Reader Function Wow

Author:Giles Andreae

“I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.”

Thinking Should Believe Problem Actors Asks Speak Silence Company Imagine Crazy Goes On Reader Empty Theater Thoughtful More Time Believe In Me Uncommon Good Company

Author:Wallace Stegner

“It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.”

People Thinking Mean Children Character Sound Pleasure Fiction Principles Love You Reader Our Children Acknowledge Novelists Your Children Only Love Love Your Children

Author:Martin Amis

“You can't be up the reader's ass, as many a writer I think is - cute as hell, ingratiating as hell. But that's not loving the reader in the right way. That's toadying to the reader.”

Thinking Way Hell Reader Ass Cute Right Way

Author:Martin Amis

“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.”

Thinking Men Stories Reading Secret Reader Hearing Versions Discontent Mesh

Book:The Winter of our Discontent

Source: The Winter of our Discontent

“The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.”

Thinking Rooms Reader Absence Plot

Book:Reality Hunger

Source: Reality Hunger

“I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... . Whether it's a politics page and you want Dan Balz to tell you what is he reading, what does he think are the smartest articles today on the elections or the primaries. So, I think aggregation is great ... . So I'm all for aggregation. And the more eyeballs we can get to our content, the better. We do want readers to be educated and to understand the difference between, what is a source that you can trust as opposed to just rumors out there. And the difference between just repurposing content and not crediting it.”

Thinking Want Doe Today Reading Differences Source Reader Pages Smart Election Educated Primaries Articles Rumor Eyeballs

Author:Katharine Weymouth

“I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.”

Thinking Felt Emotion Reader Function Peculiar Vibrations Transmit Corresponding

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.”

Thinking Writing Persons Perfect Reader And Love

Author:Anne Sexton

“I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.”

Thinking Way Film Fiction Imagine Reader Imagine That Screenwriters Fiction Writers Cinematic Watchers

Author:Miranda July

“Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.”

Thinking Character Shows Reader

Author:George V. Higgins

“I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.”

Thinking Looks Important Bigs Kids Reading Development Reader Tools Connections Fundamentals Bonding Love Of Reading Kids Love

Author:Ziggy Marley

“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.”

People Thinking Book Stories Shows Together Realizing Interesting Deals Fans Reader Drama Horror Details Genre Fixed Theme Survivor Frank Hook Zombie Coming Together Interesting Stories

Author:Steven Yeun

“I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the time factor, and then there's the factor which I call the cerebral factor of the reader, the way the reader adjusts to all the other dimensions, which is the fifth dimension.”

Thinking Way Two Three Term Novel Five Reader Depth Factors Height Dimensions Fifth Cerebral Width

Author:Richard Grossman

“I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when people were confused and scared and courageous and stupid and showed all these things. When you look at people right at the very moment of truth, everything is quite human. You take a picture at this moment with all the mistakes in it, with everything that might be confusing to the reader, but that's the right combat photo.”

People Thinking Humans Looks Made War Moments Might Mistake Taken Stupid Reader Battle Scared Confused Courageous Combat Confusing Moment Of Truth

Author:Horst Faas

“I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.”

Thinking Writing Trying Two Hands Reader Thirds Hand In Hand Precision

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“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 believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.”

“It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.”

Thinking Social Understanding Reader Bunch Editors Wire Moron Brits

Author:Terry Pratchett

“My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.”

Thinking Way Heart Purpose Challenges Reader Communicate

Author:Randy Alcorn

“I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the reader can insert themselves into it, and there is a certain kind of architectural space which is totalitarian, which does not allow you to do that.”

Thinking Kind Doe Art Certain Literature Space Reader Void Listeners Viewers Spectators Insert

Author:Jonathan Meades

“I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.”

Thinking Writing Persons Subjects Reader Topics Newness

Author:Leslie Jamison

“I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.”

Ifs Thinking Want Play Willing Reader Intrigued

Author:Joseph Boyden

“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

“As soon as I start to write I'm very aware, I'm trying to be aware that a reader just might well pick up this poem, a stranger. So when I'm writing - and I think that this is important for all writers - I'm trying to be a writer and a reader back and forth. I write two lines or three lines. I will immediately stop and turn into a reader instead of a writer, and I'll read those lines as if I had never seen them before and as if I had never written them.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Wells Two Important Might Turns Three Lines Written Reader Picks Stranger Back And Forth

Author:Billy Collins

“I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I think that, if anything, Fobbit is my way of showing readers there's another side to war - the backstage of combat, if you will. If you play a word association game with Americans and say "war," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Soldiers running across a battlefield through a hail of bullets, right? Rambo, smoke, explosions. In Fobbit, I hope readers will see something a little different”

“I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.”

Thinking Writing Difficult Interest Reader Unions Soviet Collapse Soviet Union Spy Thrillers

Author:Nelson DeMille

“Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.”

People Thinking Feels Wanted Middle Reader Sitting My Friends Tables Everyday Average Hearing Dinner East Curious Middle East Everyday Life Texture Sitting Around Best Place Dinner Table

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

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