#reader

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#idea #keen #life #outside #own

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#discover #his #ideally #order #own

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#church #die #done #even #last

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#believe #crazy #grow #grow up #i

I've been told by readers that they love how my heroes fall in love fast, first, and with conviction. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#conviction #fall #fast #first #heroes

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. ↗

— John M. Ford

#author #certainly #decide #decipher #else

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean. ↗

— John M. Ford

#decide #happening #ideal #me #mean

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#asking #become #besides #character #characters

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

#am #any #believe #believes #certain

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. ↗

— William H. Gass

#country #eye #flies #landmarks #looking