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Reader Quotes

Democracy is the road to socialism, and writing for the Reader Weekly is the road to being an unemployed 32-year-old whose relatives still put money in his birthday cards Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it’s good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her? Picture Quote #1

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that Picture Quote #1

Each week, I post a video about some ‘Pigeon of Discontent’ raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the ‘Bluebird of Happiness,’ we’re also plagued by those small but pesky ‘Pigeons of Discontent.’ Picture Quote #1

I’d read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, ‘Please, don’t hurt this guy.’ That’s the key to suspense. It’s easy to disgust a reader. It’s much harder to make them care Picture Quote #1

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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized Picture Quote #1

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That’s more than connecting Picture Quote #1

A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That’s a comic cover’s job: Attract someone’s attention, and persuade them to try the issue out Picture Quote #1

The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible Picture Quote #1

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha! Picture Quote #1

As a writer, you’re making a pact with the reader; you’re saying, ‘Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.’ Picture Quote #1

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A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn’t come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages Picture Quote #1

Drown’ was always a hybrid book. It’s connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both Picture Quote #1

My favorite group growing up was ‘The Hobbit.’ It was the first book I actually finished. One of those adventure things that takes you to that land and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. I am not a huge book reader Picture Quote #1

I would love to be in ‘The Hunger Games.’ I’m one of the few people who haven’t read the books, because unfortunately, I’m not a big book reader. I do read a lot of scripts and I read the script and I loved it. So, yeah, I’d love to be in ‘The Hunger Games.’ Picture Quote #1

I’m all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what’s really ‘at stake,’ but ultimately it’s not about them - it’s always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts Picture Quote #1

I struggle with reading a bit. I’m slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I’m not a big book reader at all. And something like ‘Game of Thrones’ seems very daunting to me! Picture Quote #1

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I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person’s is going to be different, every book reader Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn’t make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence Picture Quote #1

I’m quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book Picture Quote #1

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it Picture Quote #1

The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book Picture Quote #1

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The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader Picture Quote #1

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender Picture Quote #1

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before Picture Quote #1

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different Picture Quote #1

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people Picture Quote #1

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught Picture Quote #1

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Democracy is the road to socialism, and writing for the Reader Weekly is the road to being an unemployed 32-year-old whose relatives still put money in his birthday cards. (Reader Quotes) 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. (Reader Quotes) There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it’s good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her? (Reader Quotes) You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. (Reader Quotes) Each week, I post a video about some ‘Pigeon of Discontent’ raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the ‘Bluebird of Happiness,’ we’re also plagued by those small but pesky ‘Pigeons of Discontent.’ (Reader Quotes) I’d read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, ‘Please, don’t hurt this guy.’ That’s the key to suspense. It’s easy to disgust a reader. It’s much harder to make them care. (Reader Quotes) In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized. (Reader Quotes) While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That’s more than connecting. (Reader Quotes) A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That’s a comic cover’s job: Attract someone’s attention, and persuade them to try the issue out. (Reader Quotes) The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible. (Reader Quotes) When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha! (Reader Quotes) As a writer, you’re making a pact with the reader; you’re saying, ‘Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.’ (Reader Quotes) A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn’t come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages. (Reader Quotes) Drown’ was always a hybrid book. It’s connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both. (Reader Quotes) My favorite group growing up was ‘The Hobbit.’ It was the first book I actually finished. One of those adventure things that takes you to that land and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. I am not a huge book reader. (Reader Quotes) I would love to be in ‘The Hunger Games.’ I’m one of the few people who haven’t read the books, because unfortunately, I’m not a big book reader. I do read a lot of scripts and I read the script and I loved it. So, yeah, I’d love to be in ‘The Hunger Games.’ (Reader Quotes) I’m all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what’s really ‘at stake,’ but ultimately it’s not about them - it’s always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts. (Reader Quotes) I struggle with reading a bit. I’m slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I’m not a big book reader at all. And something like ‘Game of Thrones’ seems very daunting to me! (Reader Quotes) I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person’s is going to be different, every book reader. (Reader Quotes) I wasn’t a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn’t make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence. (Reader Quotes) When I was a kid, back in the 40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like ‘All-American Comics’ or ‘Star-Spangled Comics’ or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with ‘American’ as the first word. (Reader Quotes) I’m quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book. (Reader Quotes) When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it. (Reader Quotes) The first paragraph of my book must get me my reader. The last paragraph of a chapter must compel my reader to turn the page. The last paragraph of my book must ensure that my reader looks out for my next book. (Reader Quotes) The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader (Reader Quotes) Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender. (Reader Quotes) My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before (Reader Quotes) To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. (Reader Quotes) I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people (Reader Quotes) O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. (Reader Quotes)

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