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“At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.”

Thinking Mind Two Book Form Reader Patterns Opposition Interaction

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.”

World I Can Two Book Actors Acting Reader Two Days I Can Read

Author:Evan Peters

“I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.”

Knows Writing Two Certain My Own Knowing Reader Limits Capable Two Things Sensibility

Author:Paullina Simons

“Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.”

Want Should Mind Two Successful Five Pieces Reader Just One Nonfiction Provocative

Author:William Zinsser

“Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.”

Ifs Two Enough Age Three Class Produce Reader Critics Here And There Esoteric

Book:The Works of Thomas De Quincey,

Source: The Works of Thomas De Quincey,

“In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.”

“Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.”

Ifs Feels Heart I Can Two Desire Wish Goal Achieve Reader Ambition My Ambition

Author:James Oliver Curwood

“A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.”

Years Two Book Different Novel Reader Good Book Different Place

Author:Alan Lightman

“Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of justice is one, the other the profit we may derive therefrom. All wise men, therefore, agree that justice and profit are the two most powerful inducements to move our wills to any undertaking. Now, though men seek profit more frequently than justice, yet justice is in itself more powerful.”

Men May Two Christian Moving Politics Justice Powerful Principles Economy Wise Reader Agree Profit Two Things Liberalism Most Powerful Undertakings

Book:The Sinner's Guide

Source: The Sinner's Guide

“I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.”

Want Mind Two Ideas Lines Laughing Taken Reader Sticks Granted Phrases Sequence Taken For Granted

Author:Aaron Belz

“my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.”

Knows Two Book Stories Might Interest Novel Written Mystery Crime Reader Buried Slips Now And Then Clue Mystery Novels Crime Books

Book:The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book

Source: The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book

“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”

Wells Doe Made Said Two Reality Language Common Written Objects Poet Perspective Reader Honor Demand Unique Significant Two Things Validity Poetry By Famous Poets Unique Perspective

Author:W. H. Auden

“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.”

“Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.”

Mind Firsts Two Character Reader Pages Printed Fictional Character

Author:Maren Elwood

“Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.”

Two Remember Reader Remember When

Author:Judith Rascoe

“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.”

Persons Two Ought Reader Translate Translators Paraphrase

Author:W. H. Auden

“Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.”

World Two Done Would Be Universe Taken Imagine Poet Reader Ideals Program Mirrors Sexy Alternatives Two Things Crew Heartbreaking Auden Prospero

Author:Richard Howard

“From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.”

Two Father Interest Reader Filled Jazz Very Good Storytelling Two Things Storyteller Pianist Provoked Avid

Author:Athol Fugard

“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.”

Source: The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

“Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.”

Writing Trying Kind Two Stories Problem Happens Next Wonder Achieve Reader Balance Concern Toes Unpredictable

Author:Bill Watterson

“Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.”

Knows World Years Doe Two Facts Seems Earth Moving Time Turns Reading Walks Our Lives Minutes Reader Ten Crosses Twenties Passing Passings Novelists Thirty Thirty Years

Author:Marcel Proust

“[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .”

Ifs Humans Doe Two Eye Sound Human Beings Consciousness Sea Minutes Reader Explanation His Eyes Awkward Puzzled Compact

Book:The Magic of Shirley Jackson

Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson

“Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers' hearts long after they've turned the last page. ONLY IN MY DREAMS is pure Eve Byron, which means it's a pure delight. I fell in love with Lorelei and Dane, two of the most delightful characters I've encountered in a very long time. Byron's magical touch never falters. ONLY IN MY DREAMS is a surefire hit!”

Men Heart Mean Long Two Character Dream Lasts Three Reader Pure Pages Long Time Men And Women Delight Lists Permanent Delightful Byron

Author:Barbara Bretton

“Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.”

World Humans Two Imagination Rich Mystery Talent Reader Exploration Tides Terrific Boundless Two Worlds New Talent

Author:Valerie Sayers

“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.”

Two Artist Realizing Reader Two Things Mystic

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“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.”

People Thinking Want Two Bigs Might Realizing Reader Approach Seconds Bowls Embarrassing Toilets

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.”

Mind Looks Two Book Stories Enjoy Reader Architecture Admire Construction Two Minds

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].”

People Ifs Giving Writing Two Ideas Care Understanding Answers Planets Reader Tests Who Cares

Author:Richard Bach

“To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.”

Way Years Long Two Faces Dies Keys Reader Ambition Caught Treated Noses Gentle Happy Life Complaints Farewell My Ambition Keyboards Harness

Author:Isaac Asimov

“As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.”

Giving Persons Two Form Reading Communication Reader Sublimity

Author:E. B. White

“And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.”

Believe Wells Two Soul Certain Enjoy Answers Opinion Reader Equal Harmony Tunes

Author:Izaak Walton

“Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.”

Made Two Character Care Reader Plot Intriguing Good Character

Author:Bob Mayer

“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 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

“Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions.”

Two Problem Interest Memories Trouble Poet Reader Perception Difficulty Lists Granted Minors

Author:Billy Collins

“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

“It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.”

Two Different Turns Poor Cases Taken Imagine Perspective Reader Accounts Instance African American Reports Farmers Familiarity Terrain Preconceptions

Author:William Finnegan

“If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.”

Ifs Writing Years Two Desire Novel Reader Years Ago Twenties Curiosity Russia Familiarity Unfamiliar Terrain

Author:Debra Dean

“Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed. The blinds are drawn. We don't know. I leave it up to the reader. But there's no doubt in my mind that they loved each other, and this was an ardent, loving relationship between two adult women.”

People Knows Mind Wells Two Facts Rooms Doubt Doors Reader Adults No Doubt Privacy Ardent Loving Relationships

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.”

Thinking Needs Writing Littles Two Ideas Stories Might Easy Understanding Reader Scene Skills Fairs Flow Narrative Clue Protagonists Ebb And Flow

Author:Dennis Green

“I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.”

Knows Way Two Stories Use Happens Next Attention Novel Reader Involved Method Technique Two Things Listeners Restriction Vary

Author:William Golding

“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.”

Years Two Important Book Kids Young Three Grows Realizing Reader Bigger Series Eight Nine Violent March Introduction Nine Years Book Readers

Author:Andrew Aydin

“I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.”

Want Writing Two Stories Remember Hours Lines Reader Bills Agents Posts Our Family Online Wrestling Journal

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.”

Ifs Way Two Hours Lines Doors Reader Bills Work Out Backgrounds Agents Posts Unexpected Publishing Get Over Proposal

Author:Ann Voskamp

“In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.”

Doe Two Moments Happens Reading Reader Kissing Fishes Come Up Surface

Author:George Saunders

“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”

Source: ... Yearbook

“I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.”

Thinking World Way Writing Two Young Parent Numbers Childhood Middle Reader Grades Trapped Adulthood Two Worlds

Author:Rick Riordan

“I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Two Reason Film Literature Given Reader Difficulty China Instance Chinese

Author:Salman Rushdie

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