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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

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They did really adventurous traveling together. She talked about that. She talked about what a great reader he was, that he would read up on where they were going. It's completely fascinating to talk to her. I was ? and she said that when they were dancing, he made her feel like Ginger Rogers.

There's a horrible stereotype of both the romance writer and the romance reader as somehow undereducated and unprofessional, when in fact there are a number of incredibly well-educated professional women who have chosen to leave their other careers and go into writing romance.

The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.

At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

As I write each new Thorne novel, I'm determined that whatever is happening plot-wise, a new layer of the onion will be peeled away and reveal something about Thorne that is surprising to me as much as anyone else. If I can remain interested in the character, then hopefully the reader will stay interested, too.

A blind person using a screen reader must experience the links one after another, which is rather inconvenient. They've got better things to do.

It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxons for an hour sure to come in the world's future... the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled... .Whether the extinction of inferior races... seems to the reader sad or otherwise, it certainly appears probable.

For me, an ideal novel is a dialogue between writer and reader, both a collaborative experience and an intimate exchange of emotions and ideas. The reader just might be the most powerful tool in a writer's arsenal.

For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos.

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.

It's not going to help my reader if we only show girls who are size sixes. Everyone is beautiful, it's just a matter of confidence, and we try to show that.

It's not going to help my reader if we only show girls who are size 6's. Everyone is beautiful, it's just a matter of confidence, and we try to show that.

It's not going to help my reader if we only show girls who are size 6's.

It's not an easy book. The book challenges the young reader to see the modern world in light of the lessons of the past.

The book is famous for two things: It's an early reader for kids with its simple language. And the second thing is how the fantastic illustrations show dogs doing human things.

The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'

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.

I've got to admit, it's one of the most fun parts of my job. We laugh our butts off when we do them. They are over-the-top, but the reader knows they're hyperbolic.

I've got to admit, it's one of the most fun parts of my job, ... We laugh our butts off when we do them. They are over-the-top, but the reader knows they're hyperbolic.

I want the reader to be in the shoes of everyday people who are facing incredible dangers and wonder if they would make the same choices.

I wanted to reader to see the turmoil a company goes through in a starting phase. Particularly one like Netscape, which started a revolution, or at least was part of starting a revolution.

The Vedas are the oldest literary creations of man. Now the word 'literature' is used to connote writings scribbled while eager to find something to spend the time hanging on hand. They have no inner worth or significance; they destroy the traits of good character in the reader and implant bad attitudes and habits; they do not adhere to the path of Truth.

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.

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.

I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.

In general, I think, less is more and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

I have not got one call from a subscriber or a reader who complained about that ad. Not one letter or e-mail.

I'm very lucky that I started out as a reader of the comic book and a viewer of the show. And I try to remain that, and make 'The Walking Dead' that I love watching. Luckily, I have the source material that I love, and I want to serve that as well.

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.

I'm a voracious reader - I always have a book on the go and read for at least half an hour, usually more, every night.

I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

I'm an avid reader of magazines like The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books , ... Sometimes they have articles about what big corporations are up to.

I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you can't even begin to touch that. A novel is a singular vision, and then a myriad of readers have their own experience of that.

If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.

In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.

In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.

If you think about a 5-year-old that wants to play Reader Rabbit and they have to sit though an install process, it shouldn't be like that.

If you were lucky, you could delegate that kind of work away. But if not, and you couldn't get at the underlying text of what you wanted to do, you were out of luck. And that was the frustration many blind people ran into. Then the only way a blind person could do the work was to hire a sighted person as a reader to help run the machine.

Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby.

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.

I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

I try not to bore my readers.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.

I am a daily reader of the Centre Daily Times online every day from the beautiful island of Maui,

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.

Comcast's other leading asset is QVC, the country's leading electronic reader over cable today. That's a tremendous building block that can be used as the Internet opens up and electronic commerce emerges perhaps as one of its biggest applications,

I am made nervous, as someone who works in the same vineyard, by the idea of inventing himself as a fictional character, ... It seems unnecessary. It seems taking a major liberty. And the problem with it is if you invent the fictional character and you take this liberty, then the reader is going to think what other liberties?

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.