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“I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.”

Writing Different Ends Done Stories Wanted Together Wonder Reader Decided Love Story

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.”

Writing Trying Wells Different Inspiration Novel Creative Reader Asking Surprise Depth

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“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

“One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. Generally speaking, I don't like to make a plan before I've written a story. I find it kills the story - deadens it, makes it uninteresting. Unless I'm surprised by something in a story, the reader's not going to be surprised either.”

Way Writing Stories Shows Plans Written Reader Inventiveness

Author:Philip Pullman

“It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.”

Knows Way Writing Book Young Students Reader Let Me Inspired Passionate Educator Young Students

Author:Julia Alvarez

“I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I do not hesitate to write them into my books. My reader mail tells me this is something that readers especially like about my books.”

Writing Important Book Values Strong Reader Mail Loving God Family Values Strong Family

Author:Debbie Macomber

“No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.”

Writing Effort Reader Noble Coming Out Unconditional

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I hate traveling and being away from my family. But I like meeting my readers, as what I write is actualized in them. Those encounters are exhilarating to me.”

Writing Hate Reader My Family I Hate Meetings Encounters Exhilarating

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.”

“I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.”

“I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory of settings, events and people. I weave history into my stories, but my narratives are made up.”

People Way Writing Made Stories Use Memories Fiction Imagine Events Reader Setting Settings Narrative Bored Non Fiction

Author:Sefi Atta

“You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders.”

Needs Writing Stories Care Desire Passion Attention Reader Overwhelming Sincerity Pretender Overwhelming Desire

Author:Sefi Atta

“I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored.”

Writing Trying Long Book Matter Hard Cutting Reader Narrative Bored Slow Down

Author:Chevy Stevens

“The reason I love comics is that they DON'T move, and there is NO sound. As a creator I have to evoke those elements in the drawings and writing, and the reader has to create those elements in their own minds.”

Writing Mind Reason Moving Sound Reader Elements Creator Drawing Evoke

Author:Dave McKean

“I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."”

Writing Book Sometimes Feelings Reading Strong Cry Tears Reader Quotations Writing A Book Very True Strong Feeling Readership Trueness

Author:Eve Bunting

“The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.”

Writing Stories Can Do Reader Rewards You Can Do It

Author:Nick Earls

“Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.”

People Writing Mean Challenges Knowing Pieces Reader Pure Discovery Arguing

Author:Susan Orlean

“I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Writing Looks Matter Liberty Taken Reader Memoir

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.”

Feels Writing Kind Persons Age Faces Reader Ideals Gender Sympathetic

Author:Paul Auster

“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”

Giving Writing Opportunity Fiction Reader Journalism Witness Hiroshima

Author:John Hersey

“One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.”

Writing Humans Life Is Reader Memoir Human Life Drag

Author:Andre Dubus

“The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.”

Writing Made Reading Decision Reader Narrative Prose Poetry Is Verses Bedtime

Author:Robert Morgan

“I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.”

“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

“The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.”

Writing Reason School Numbers Reader

Author:Frank Murphy

“One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.”

Giving Writing Has Beens I Can Joy Father Reader Dad Give Me Fortune My Dad Lovely Writing Life Good Fortune

Author:Andre Dubus

“A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.”

Writing Doe Reader Comfortable Precaution

Book:A Burnt-Out Case

Source: A Burnt-Out Case

“I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.”

“What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.”

Writing Trying Moving Loses Too Much Particular Reader Series Harm Genre Thrive Self Harm Moving Away

Author:John Connolly

“My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.”

World Writing Trying Littles Dream Reality Black My Own White Reader Understood Absolutes Mirrors Complexes Casts Honestly Hopefully Black And White Dream World Ambivalent

Author:Andre Dubus

“One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy of writing, and reading, we can discuss topics that are a little touchy, a bit embarrassing, and feel less alone in the process. Feeling consumed by memories from high school. Feeling wimpy. Feeling time-obsessed. Yearning for our fathers. Wishing we were taller, or shorter, or less average. To name just a few.”

“It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.”

Writing Sometimes Hours Reader Approach Grateful Surprise Following Allowing Surprise Me Unorthodox

Author:Grant Morrison

“Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)”

Writing Firsts Humans Hard Human Beings Fiction Impossible Reader Protagonists

Author:Charles Stross

“In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.”

Writing Trying Mind Language Goal Novel Audience Reader Tools Finals Screens Transition Principal Screenplays

Author:Philippe Claudel

“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

“There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do feel in my heart of hearts that if history isn't well written, it isn't going to be read, and if it isn't read it's going to die.”

People Ifs Feels Writing Trying Wells Heart Said Dies Written Reader My Heart Tedious Well Written

Author:David McCullough

“If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.”

Ifs Way Writing Trying Mean I Can Reader Excited Pushing Something New Intrigued Envelopes Pushing The Envelope

Author:Rita Dove

“Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.”

Writing Trying Reader Commit Being Yourself Get Away Overboard Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Wells I Can Talking Reader Conversation

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.”

Way Writing Firsts Mean Courses Poet Reader Best Way Bores Urgent

Book:Collected writings on poetry

Source: Collected writings on poetry

“More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.”

People Way Writing Years Mean Creative Perspective Reader Years Ago Twenties Access Nurture Readership Dross

Author:John Hodgman

“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

“Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.”

Writing Reader Protect Assuming Smarter Protect You

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“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

“Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.”

Writing Reader

Book:The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes

Source: The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes

“Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.”

Ifs Want Writing Home Happens Party Fine Reader Reviews

Author:J. K. Rowling

“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

“I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that time I had come across a critic called Kenneth Burke, who wrote a book called A Rhetoric of Motives, and it seemed to talk about another way, and gradually I realized that other way was that the reader made a difference.”

Way Writing Made Book Differences Reader Criticism Critics I Realized Motive Rhetoric Another Way Kenneth

Author:Vito Acconci

“The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it.”

Writing Kind Fun Secret Reader Paper Nervous Allies Locks Files True Life Passwords

Author:Julie Klausner

“Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.”

Way Writing Enough Sex Difficult Too Much Written Information Reader Sexy Sexuality Admire Too Much Information

Author:Toni Morrison

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