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“Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.”

Writing Mind Humans Certain Order Reader Limits Tasks Lays Assuming Human Mind Labyrinth Recess

Book:The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia

Source: The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia

“Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.”

Giving Writing Book Reading Reader Pages Professors Ink

Author:Louise Rosenblatt

“Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.”

Writing Children Matter Age Difficult Reader Deserve No Matter What Good Writing Deserve The Best

Book:The Business of Writing for Children

Source: The Business of Writing for Children

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Ideas Order Magic Mystery Reader Discovery Advantage Valuable Awe Reverence Display Selection Texture Accompany Subtext

Author:Toni Morrison

“When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.”

Source: Young Hearts Crying

“Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.”

Writing Kind Sometimes Stories Reader Hardest Seeming

Author:John Cheever

“Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.”

Writing Whole Literature Novel Reader Scene Phrases Cherish Awkward Spoiled Lumps American Literature Bad Writing Sodium

Book:A book of prefaces

Source: A book of prefaces

“Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.”

“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.”

“Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.”

Ifs Writing Believe Wells Hands Young Courses Reading Practice Democracy Reader Literacy Hand In Hand Reading And Writing

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.”

Writing Expression Reader Obscure Authorship

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.”

Want Writing Reason Life Is Fighting Novel Clear Objects Reader Racism Complicated Reason Why Voting Yes Or No Against Racism

Author:Margaret Atwood

“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

“We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.”

Writing Reader Pages Interiors

Book:Writing a Book That Makes a Difference

Source: Writing a Book That Makes a Difference

“Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers.”

“My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.”

Thinking Writing May Waiting Reader Acquire Obsolete Timeliness

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Loving your subject, you will write about it with the spontaneity and enthusiasm that will transmit itself to your reader. Loving your reader, you will respect him and want to please him. You will not write down to him. You will take infinite pains with your work. You will write well. And if you write well, you will get published.”

Ifs Want Writing Wells Pain Subjects Reader Please Infinite Enthusiasm Spontaneity Loving You Transmit

Author:Lee Wyndham

“Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.”

Source: Writing for children and teen-agers

“In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.”

Writing Believe May Reader Standards Relation Double Standard Unfaithful

Author:W. H. Auden

“An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.”

People Writing Able Reader Aspect Perfection

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.”

Writing Turns Ability Honesty Reader Surprise Wit Unexpected Mike Penetration Unexpected Turns

Author:Norman Mailer

“I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is extraordinary - readers from all over the world coming together to discuss, argue and debate scenes and characters from a novel. They add a layer to the story that I cannot write and yes, I will participate in that conversation and answer questions. After all, they are the people I'm writing for and their enthusiasm and questions really pushes me to raise the bar.”

“If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable and will engage the reader's interest, go for it. Make sure you have something unique to offer. I enjoy the work of writers who give you something you won't find anywhere else.”

Ifs Giving Writing Ideas Kids Enjoy Interest Reader Offers Unique

Author:Joel McIver

“What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.”

Writing Language Forget Communication Reader Strive Mediums Clarity Prose Transparent

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.”

Want Writing Years Book Reader Hundred Details Irrelevant

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.”

Ifs Writing I Can Actors Acting Audience Imagine Reader

Author:Joan Didion

“You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and it's better than any kind of writing class you'll ever take. You will absorb techniques and then in a lot of cases you can just start writing using the style of the book or the author that you admire and then your own style will emerge out of that. Be a diligent reader and then try to write seriously, professionally and approach everything in writing in a professional way.”

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Author:Homer Hickam

“Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!”

Writing Reader Meetings Beer Solitary Going Out Signing

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.”

Ifs Want Giving Writing Book Audience Reader Appreciate

Author:Marianne Williamson

“When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.”

Thinking Writing Mind May Ends Action Social Causes Challenges Love Is Reader Criticism Paradigm Provocative

Author:Bell Hooks

“A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.”

Writing Self Community Reader Amount Involved Historical Insight Fund Serving Instruction Academic Unbelievable Consuming Manuals

Author:Gotz Aly

“I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.”

Way Writing Believe May Difficult Poet Reader Don't Believe Obscure

Author:Lydia Davis

“I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.”

Ifs Writing Said Able Reader Importance Grandmother Literacy My Grandmother

Author:Kevin Gates

“Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.”

Writing Reading Reader Editors

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.”

People Writing Book Form Reader Appreciate Various Entertainment Storytelling Publishers Good Writing Good Storytelling

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!”

Writing Reader Hardest Geography Timelines

Author:Michael Scott

“I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a huge chunk of my library with me. Usually, when I am writing one project, I am researching the next or beginning to pull together the material for the book after that.”

Writing Book Together Reading Next Materials Huge Reader Projects Library Chunks

Author:Michael Scott

“That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the readers are a lot smarter than the writer. Also, good writing has to do with rewriting. You will never get it right the first time. So you rewrite and rewrite again until you get it right. Until you, and the reader, will be able to visualize what you're writing about.”

Knows Writing Firsts Important Able Remember Fiction Subjects Reader First Time Smarter Non Fiction Good Writing Rewriting

Author:Michael Scott

“The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.”

Writing Book Inspire Reader Rewards Come Up Profession Up To You

Author:Michael Scott

“People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.”

People World Way Writing Reading Voice Opinion Reader Internet Virtual World Reading More

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.”

People Writing Language Fun Enjoy Interest Behinds Reader Internet Spread Blogs Downloads

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.”

Ifs Knows World Way Writing Book Different This World Reader Creating Mass Critical Objectives Different Ways Better Place Critical Mass

Author:Paulo Coelho

“You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.”

People Writing Reader Appreciate Good Writing Good Writers Insensitive

Author:Robert Caro

“If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.”

People Ifs Writing Kind Said Book Reader Jokes Rings Clever Hardest

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.”

“I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing that hasn't changed: Whatever the delivery system, whether it's a magazine, book or blog, people like vivid writing, strong stories and credible people. So while the venue is changing rapidly, human nature isn't, which I find soothing.”

People Knows Writing Years Humans I Can Book Stories Strong One Thing Human Nature Changed Reader News Magazines Vivid Blogs Delivery Soothing Credible Venues

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family. I have discovered new products, new books, new trends and new restaurants, and been able to share them with my readers. I've met other wonderful writers and many incredible celebrities.”

Writing Book Able Opportunity Wonderful Share Products Reader Mets My Family Incredibles Restaurants Trends Multitudes Traveled New Books New Places New Products Amazing Opportunities

Author:Anna Quindlen

“My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.”

Ifs Writing Wells Mother Reader Models Simplicity Clarity Curious Thoughtful Irrelevant Superfluous

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to me, and I'm able to send them things. I love meeting them in person, and even if it's only for a moment I love having that physical, touching interaction.”

Ifs Writing Persons Moments Able Reader Meetings Genuine Touching Interaction Things I Love

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.”

Thinking Knows Writing Reading Enjoy Fantasy Reader

Author:Sarah Dessen

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