Reader Quotes - Page 31

• I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

  Seth Godin

  Writing, Decision, Trying

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• If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Character, Cutting, Interesting

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• I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Long, Retreat

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• Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

  Chris Hughes

  Reading, Years, Majority

  "New Republic Gets an Owner Steeped in New Media" By Brian Stelter, Michael J. de la Merced, mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

  Ed McBain

  Writing, Ifs

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• I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River'.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Two, Rivers, Political

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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• It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Fall, Thinking, Rivers

  "Los Bros Hernandez". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2005.

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• I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Thinking, Literature, Helping

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• Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Challenges, Firsts, Plausible

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• I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

  Tony Hillerman

  Attitude, Two, Mind

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• 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

  Reading, Writing, Wife

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• The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Character, Peculiar, Literature

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• I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

  Janis Ian

  Book, Avid, Car

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• Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.

  Leslie Jamison

  Nice, Book, Writing

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• The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

  Maureen Johnson

  Kids, Dedicated, Craziest

  "Five Questions with Suite Scarlett author Maureen Johnson". Interview with Megan Cahn, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2009.

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• No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book, Purpose, Felt

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

  Hari Kunzru

  Leader, Understanding, Nuance

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• I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

  Jon Krakauer

  Writing, Secret, Fantasy

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• I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Thinking, Artist, Accepted

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• I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

  Nicole Krauss

  Reality, Important, Fictional Stories

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• I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

  Nicole Krauss

  Thinking, Long, House

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• If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Book, Writing, Mystery

  "Conversation: Nicole Krauss’ ‘Great House’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 22, 2010.

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• One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

  Rachel Kushner

  Knowing, Narrators, Firsts

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• I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hard Work, Giving, Fans

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• I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Believe, Past, Trying

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