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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Quote by Nathalie Sarraute about literature, work, things, good, good luck

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other...

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Quote by P. L. Travers about books, writers

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about love, writing, common sense, sense

What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to...

What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.

Quote by Lester Bangs about writers, nothing

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers...

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about attention

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to...

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Quote by Dean Acheson about writers

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about influence

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing...

Quote by Joseph Addison about genius, man

The reader must make his own judgments.

The reader must make his own judgments.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, ...

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write...

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Quote by Albert Camus about art

I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me...

I like giving readers an opportunity to get a hold of me in that way and to read things I've written which might disappear otherwise.

Quote by Michael Chabon about chance, things

I started to feel that I had a large problem: my comic book characters didn't exist, and none of my readers would have seen them. The Escapist existed only within the covers of this book.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the...

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about...

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics.

Quote by Michael Chabon

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they...

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Quote by Michael Chabon about books, fire, fire brigade, things, time, love

I consider everywhere I go research, so you will be...

I consider everywhere I go research, so you will be reading about the Bahamas in a future novel! That's because I like to take my readers with me!

Quote by Jackie Collins about research, future

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

Quote by Jackie Collins about research, haven, order, writing

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Quote by Jackie Collins about love, books, writing, people

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to...

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endue it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about writing, end, life

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