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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.
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Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
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Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.
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Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.
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Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
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One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
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Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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