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Honestly, my entire childhood could be summed up with one word: Reader. I was always hunched over a book; in fact, I was the only kid in the world who got paler in the summer, because I'd sneak down into our cool, dank cellar and sit alone with a book for hours.
Kristan Higgins
Alone
Book
World
Word
Sit
Down
Honestly
Our
Summer
Kid
One Word
Entire
Only
Fact
Could
Over
Hours
Reader
Because
Always
Got
Sneak
Up
Cellar
Childhood
In Fact
Who
Cool
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.
Kristina McMorris
Alone
Day
Me
Creative
Before
Honestly
Writer
Shared
Reader
Fiction
Much
Grandmother
Letters
Her
Treasured
But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
Laura Bush
Good
You
People
Fine
About
Perceptive
He
Know
Talk
Reader
Issues
George
Very
Personalities
It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.
Laura van den Berg
Time
Reality
World
Easy
Comprehension
Identity
Reader
Passage
Craft
Gradually
Novel
As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my own work. In this way, dislocation and precision make total sense to me as a unit.
Laura van den Berg
Work
Me
Quality
World
Try
Own
Sense
Way
Visceral
Total
My Own
Unsettled
Feels
Also
Make
Reader
Precision
Dislocation
Unit
Bring
Appreciate
I am a pretty omnivoracious reader in respect to prose style, but if the prose doesn't have its own music, if the relationship to the sentence seems unconsidered or superficial, I have a really hard time reading the work.
Laura van den Berg
Work
Music
Time
Relationship
Respect
Reading
Style
Own
Pretty
Superficial
Seems
Prose
Reader
Am
Time Reading
Sentence
Really
Hard
Hard Time
In the novels I most admire, there is this sense that, within the confines of the world, the possibilities are always opening in new and surprising ways - that was a quality I strived to capture, with the hope that the reader would be willing to follow me.
Laura van den Berg
Hope
Me
Quality
World
Sense
Ways
Possibilities
Willing
Would
Would-Be
Admire
Follow
New
Opening
Most
Reader
Within
Always
Surprising
Confines
Capture
Novels
I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Kiss
Gives
Reader
Want
Believable
I'm not really a big reader.
Lauren Conrad
Big
Reader
Really
There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.
Lauren Willig
Women
Writing
Other
Incredibly
Horrible
Somehow
Both
Fact
Writer
Stereotype
Reader
Well-Educated
Leave
Go
Romance
In Fact
Who
Professional
Chosen
Number
Careers
I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
Lauren Willig
Book
Predict
Complain
Individual
Had
Mainstream
Reader
Readers
Very
Person
Expectations
Same
Going
Romance
Depends
Story
Really
Hard
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.
Laurence Housman
Me
Appreciation
Experience
Own
Immediate
Further
Pleasure
Find
My Own
More
Gives
Towards
Feet
Like
Most
Also
Reader
Greater
Audiences
Hear
Stimulus
Lecturer
Reviews
Than
Them
Who
Even
Activity
Plays
If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.
Lawrence Wright
Great
You
People
Those
Characters
Invested
Emotionally
Reader
Becomes
Then
Your
I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
LeVar Burton
Technology
Gadgets
Reader
Always
Been
Interested
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
Lee Child
Me
Book
Exciting
Reader
End
Just
When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.
Leila Slimani
Emotions
World
Sometimes
Men
Girl
First
Those
Feel
Like
Reader
Felt
Discovering
Dickens
Link
Times
Child
Nostalgia
Wanted
Little
Little Girl
Novels
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
Len Wein
Character
Humanity
Resonate
Remains
Bottom
Bottom Line
Make
Reader
Always
How
Line
Same
Them
Basic
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
Len Wein
Visceral
Well
Reader
Makes
How
Effect
Story
Connect
Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.
Leo Burnett
Try
Too
Beneath
Ads
Head
Over
Reader
Go
His
End
Up
Notice
Many
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
Lev Grossman
Every
Think
Secretly
Magic
Know
Reader
How
Fantasy
Works
Believes
I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.
Libba Bray
Me
You
Book
Big
Living
Kid
Inside
Web
Charlotte
Could
Feel
Reader
Were
Actually
I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.
Linda Sue Park
Work
Become
Own
Think
Books
Response
Kind
Some
Something
Both
Part
Feel
Make
Reader
Provoke
Want
Them
Lives
I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.
Linda Sue Park
Mom
Writing
Remember
Long
Reading
Before
Kindergarten
Writer
Main
Main Reason
Wrote
Reader
Became
Still
Been
Stories
Reason
Even
Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!
Lisa Jackson
God
Simple
Internet
Example
Out
Characters
Would
Would-Be
Cast
Written
Check
Like
For Example
Look
She
Him
Reader
Idiots
Test
Sake
Were
Texting
Wonder
Might
Acting
Why
Her
Present
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
Lois Lowry
Science
Fact
Never
Particularly
Reader
Science Fiction
Been
In Fact
Fiction
Literature
Interested
Dystopian
Fantasy
One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.
Lois Lowry
Hope
You
Book
Will
Think
Thinking
Later
Hopes
Emerge
About
Most
Reader
Audience
Questions
Movie
Raised
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