Reader Quotes - Page 29

• The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

  Anita Diament

  Book, Rooms, Persons

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• My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

  Diane Duane

  Children, Passion, Only Child

  "Wizards in a new millennium: an interview with Diane Duane". Interview with Kelly Knox, www.wired.com. August 7, 2012.

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• What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

  Diane Duane

  Years, Trying, Found

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• I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Tears, New Things

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• Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Doors, Mourning

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• 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

  Writing, Alive, Dull

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• My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Character, Plot

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• Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

  John Doerr

  Vanity, Wells, Phenomenon

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• If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.

  Ted Dekker

  Voice, Leader, Risk

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• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Journey, Discovery

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• I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

  Anne Enright

  Character, Knowing Everything, Not Knowing

  "Anne Enright: 'I was always on the side. Like a salad'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Believe, Writing, Views

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• I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Character, Emotion, Feels

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

  Alex Flinn

  Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Want

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• I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Book, Becoming, Wonderful

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• I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Height, Influence, My Own

  "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Girl, Reading, Escaping

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• I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Book, Thinking, Stories

  "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

  Ken Follett

  Stories, Want, Next

  "Edge of Eternity : A Talk With Ken Follett". Interview with Mark Rubinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2014.

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• If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

  Jeff Gannon

  Believe, White, Issues

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.

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• I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.

  Lisa Gardner

  Book, Numbers, Answers

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• What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.

  Lisa Gardner

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.

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• When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.

  Lisa Gardner

  Crazy, Psych, Trust Myself

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• I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

  Jeff Abbott

  Believe, Hero, Character

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• It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.

  Jeff Abbott

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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