#readers

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience). ↗

— James Schuyler

#genesis #i #make #me #mean

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#appreciate #around #critically #democracy #essential

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#only #readers #span #will #writers

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#full #may #readers #world #writers

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#i #like #provoke #readers #responses

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#entertain #entertainment #entertainment business #gives #lots

All of my books now come from readers' ideas. ↗

— Ann Rule

#come #ideas #now #readers

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. ↗

— Yann Martel

#expect #fiction #follow #genre #readers

Especially if it's a wild animal, I find the readers are intrigued. And if your reader's intrigued right away, you've won half the battle of telling a story." ↗

— Yann Martel

#away #battle #especially #find #half

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#criticisms #editorial #feedback #free #friends