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One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'
Peter Milligan
First
Down
Our
Bad
One Thing
Casualties
Never
New
Talk
Reader
New Story
Did
Story
Certainly
Company
Thing
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
Philip Kerr
Presume
Temptation
More
Take
Lazy
Reader
Knows
Always
Than
Get
Granted
Things
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade.
Philip Pullman
Book
Ending
Healthy
Benefit
Everyone
Libraries
Distributor
Ecology
Reader
Trade
Up
Author
Should
Including
Publisher
Starting
I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.
Philip Schultz
Love
Day
Great
Great Deal
Slow
Reading
About
Selective
Read
Reader
Because
Deal
Very
Mean
Painfully
Therefore
Fast
Careful
When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book's real power comes from its slower, broader movement.
Philipp Meyer
You
Book
Political
Power
Broader
Those
Weakest
Slower
Wrath
Directly
Idea
Look
Reader
Real
Real Power
Movement
Which
Grapes
Moments
I have been a politically conscious citizen. I've been an artist, a reader, and have been chiselled by that.
Prakash Raj
Citizen
Reader
Been
Artist
Politically
Conscious
I am a husband, son and father, a reader, a traveller, a fan, and also a cook.
Prakash Raj
Son
Father
Husband
Also
Reader
Am
Fan
Cook
Traveller
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
Rachel Kushner
Work
Great
Knowledge
Writing
Added
About
Layer
Invisible
Great Thing
Reader
Without
Thing
The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
Rachel Kushner
Funny
Art
Character
Me
World
Will
Say
Dimension
Entertain
Something
Also
Reader
Art World
Want
Social
Fascinating
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
Rainbow Rowell
Good
Comedy
Throughout
Write
Smiling
Reader
Goal
Romantic
Wanted
Romantic Comedy
Really
I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my smartphone.
Rajeev Suri
Travel
Digital
Reading
Books
Physical
Abroad
Like
Reader
Want
Pack
Even
A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book.
Ravi Subramanian
Needs
Book
Beginning
Down
Prevent
Thriller
Attention
Putting
Reader
Very
Hold
Interest
Them
Engage
If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then the reader shifts his loyalties.
Ravi Subramanian
Reading
Books
Supply
Particular
Likes
Reader
His
Shifts
Up
Author
Then
Loyalties
Keep
Kept
It is almost impossible to win back a reader's loyalty once it's gone.
Ravi Subramanian
Loyalty
Win
Impossible
Gone
Back
Once
Almost
Reader
I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.
Raymond E. Feist
Hope
Best
Myself
Book
People
Strong
Gone
Other
Worried
Thousands
About
Magician
Write
Never
Since
New
Like
New Book
Reader
Because
Opinions
Listen
Downhill
Whom
Ever
I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.
Rebecca Stead
Wonderful
Think
Kids
Head
Reader
Your
I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
Reese Witherspoon
Kids
See
Window
Kitchen
Read
Reader
While
Them
Fast
Play
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.
Reid Scott
Best
World
Matter
Way
Best Way
Head
Feed
Reader
Non-Fiction
Comics
Your
Avid
Novels
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.
Rhea Perlman
Son
Chapter
Words
Long
Trouble
Picture
Reading
Few
Young
Books
Chapters
Kids
Some
Seem
Lifetime
Picture Books
Like
Leap
Reader
Becomes
Making
Lots
Very
Laborious
Often
Short
Sentences
Then
Pages
Serious
Including
Why
On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader offering to take each character's side every few pages.
Richard Corliss
Character
Game
Girl
Few
Gone
Every
Side
Chapters
Take
Tennis
Reader
Match
Offering
Literary
Page
Pages
Each
Nick
Amy
That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.
Richard Ford
Great
Dyslexic
Kid
Reader
Said
Being
If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.
Rick Atkinson
Will
Own
Out
Vividly
Come
Reader
Narrative
Conclusions
His
Laid
Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.
Rob Thomas
Mom
Crime
Before
Teenage
Teenage Years
Books
Secretly
Spent
Out
Mars
Ten
Ten Years
Like
Read
Reader
Am
Still
Hippies
Veronica
Years
Left
Afraid
Then
Much
Away
Copy
Kept
I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.
Robert Carlyle
You
Drop
Nothing
Television
Relentless
Network
Network Television
Reader
Ball
Quite
Rabid
Scripts
Used
Now
With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.
Robert Crumb
You
Reading
Every
Drawing
Kind
Detail
Detailed
Some
Develop
Like
Look
Make
Reader
Got
Comics
Want
Process
Shorthand
Average
Interferes
Actually
Flow
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.
Robert Gottlieb
Good
You
Editing
Sense
Simply
Qualification
Reader
Editor
Any
Common
Common Sense
Why
Application
Number
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