#reader

But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. ↗

— John McGahern

#finds #live #once #private #private world

I really try to focus on my books and readers. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#focus #i #readers #really #try

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#been #books #changed #clip #faster

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

— John Grisham

#i #politics #readers #want

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. ↗

— John Grisham

#alienate #anything #getting #one thing #pulpit

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#easy #gay #i #interesting #last

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are. ↗

— David Guterson

#compulsion #consider #deeply #duty #ethical

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#been #chair #discoveries #easy #farther

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

#english #find #first #foremost #i

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#else #entertain #got #one thing #put