Reader Quotes - Page 8

• The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

  Rosemary Wells

  Children, Book, Heart

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• If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

  Laura Miller

  Children, Book, Lists

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• If you would be a writer, first be a reader

  Allan W. Eckert

  Would Be, Firsts, Ifs

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• If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Writing, Different, Asks

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• Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues to influence the character’s worldview, attitudes, decisions, and actions.

  Larry Brooks

  Attitude, Writing, Character

  Larry Brooks (2011). “Story Engineering”, p.89, Writer's Digest Books

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• Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.

  Peter Benenson

  Thinking, What Matters, Government

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• The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

  David Pogue

  Book, Reading, Successful

  "The Kindle: Good before, better now". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

  Aileen Fisher

  Writing, Feelings, Pieces

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• Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that I am willing to endorse; I endorse this one enthusiastically. If you have an abdomen, get this book!

  David L. Katz

  Book, Rewards, Abdomen

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• I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Dream, Glasses, Doubt

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.67, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

  Jason Ellis

  Character, Giving, Fantasy Stories

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• I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

  Fay Godwin

  Country, Avid, Trying

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• There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

  Robert Graves

  Horse, Reading, Writing

  Robert Graves (2006). “The Long Weekend : a Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939: And, The Reader Over Your Shoulder : a Handbook for Writers of English Prose”, Carcanet Press

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• I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Stranger, Dear

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• A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

  William Safire

  Mind, Able, Companion

  "Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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• I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

  James Laughlin

  Break Up, Block, Writing

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• In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Moving On, Bored, Assumption

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• I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

  Piers Anthony

  Wish, Needs, I Want You

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• The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Writing, New Relationship, Literature

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• Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Writing, Trying

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• In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

  John Updike

  Country, Writing, Who Cares

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• This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

  Wietse Venema

  Writing, Computer, Surprise

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• I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

  Sarah Zettel

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

  Dorothea Brande

  Philosophy, Mind, Prejudice

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.1, Lulu.com

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• Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova Scotia to New Orleans. Farmer is a wonderful storyteller, and readers won't soon forget this tale of love and fortitude. Simply riveting.

  Keith Donohue

  New Orleans, America, Grace

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