Reader Quotes

I do crazy amounts of research. I want this stuff to 'work,' so to speak. I need to be, at least to me, believable - because if I feel - if I cannot invest some element of verisimilitude, the reader is absolutely not going to buy in. Greg Rucka
Work Buy Me Crazy Speak Research Some Invest Absolutely Absolutely Not Feel Stuff Reader Because Least Going Want Cannot Element Believable Amount Need
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. Greg van Eekhout
Too Much Too Unrelenting Tend Tales Reader Get Much
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction. Greg van Eekhout
Work Book Find More Writer Toward Reader Real Climax Than Where Working Satisfaction
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself Wise Money Publish Once Write Writer Writes Himself Reader Said Very Author Just Then
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Writing Wife Finished Reading Everything Something Write Main She Reader Reads
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself Needs Enjoy Write Written Reader Being Much Really
I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all. Gza
Thought Vocabulary Never Had Like Read Reader Lot Up Really Avid Growing Growing Up Extensive
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred. H. G. Bissinger
Family Become Holding Seven Paper City Something Sacred Writer Inveterate New Reader Because Were Hand Up Did York New York New York City Grew Loved Newspapers Why
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next. Hakan Nesser
Book Writing First About Write Excited Also Reader Where Want Happens While Next
In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader. Hallgrimur Helgason
Life Book Matter Sense Every Phrase Writer Reader Iceland Lives
I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am. Harlan Coben
Love Heart People Having More Thrilled More People Chased Never Read Reader Readers Always Am Dollar Who
It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step. Harry Mathews
Opportunities Every Every Step Follow Seem Case Something Could Step Reader Narrative Always Odd Been May Frustrate Interesting Create
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. Helen Dunmore
You Writing Words Inside Both Poetry Weight Head Aloud Learn Reader Makes How Sound Intensely Conscious Ear
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. Helen Dunmore
Myself Writing Language Alive See Bear Put Reader Got Dull Up Any Should Fully Why
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. Helen Dunmore
Individuals Feel Concentrate Know Reader Whom Lives
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.' Helen Oyeyemi
Saying Good Me World Sometimes Reading Down Think Books Top Definitely Hurry More Writer Weighing Head Feel Read Reader Piled Always Lot Up Than Many Basically
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. Henry Miller
Joy Drop Whatever Tree Critic Out Ripe General Like Concern Reader Sheer Makes Done Fruits Them
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. Henry Miller
Work Good Great Communication Mysteries Important Few Secondary Those Must Only Except Obscure Like Himself Great Work Reader Inevitably Perpetuation Very Author Which Then Who Initiated Necessary
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. Hilary Mantel
Remember Reading Critical Also Reader Judging Without Experienced Story Ever
'Twilight' passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare. Holly Black
People Rare Single Books Alike Those Kind Through Weekends Raw Over Like Sophisticated Reader Devoured Passed Fever Intensity Twilight
I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I have been considering doing a guide on my website so that a reader who liked one of my books could find the other books that he or she might like, because I know some of the books are really different from the rest. Holly Black
Website Love Rest Other Books Considering Guide Find Some Could Writes He He Or She Weirdo Like Know Liked She Reader Because Doing Been Lot Being Different Different Ages Might Ages Really Who Different Things Things
When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name. Holly Black
Success Good Book Books Pleasure Out Kind Rarely About Name Talk Household Make Household Name Reader Makes Going Often Break Sentences
I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head. Honor Blackman
World Head Perform Reader Because
'W1A' is heightened naturalism, whereas 'The Windsors' is like the fever dream of a 'National Enquirer' reader. Hugh Skinner
National Dream Like Reader Fever Whereas Naturalism
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces. Ian Frazier
Humor Pieces Reader Disregard
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself. Ian Frazier
Funny You Yourself Humor Important Think Supply Reader Get Listener Things Chance
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