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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Paper Patient Reader
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

Favorite Addicted Reader Voracious
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

Think Teach Children Begin
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Reader's Animal Suspend Disbelief
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Sharpen Blunt Mellow Personal
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Act Book Bring Creative
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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.

Absolutely Best Reader Writer
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Believe Both Communicator Enable
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I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

Actually Big Book Charlotte
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I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Always Back Been Book
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I've always been a reader and a writer.

Always Been Reader Writer
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.

We Live Short Time
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True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.

True Literature More Than
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Arise Attaining Become Desire
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

Acknowledge Being Being Smart Books
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

About Connections Future Having
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Decision Find Made More
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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Important People Readers Reading
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I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Art Artist Creative Creative Person
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Black Little Live Makes
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Would Never Want Book
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Reader Surprise Tears Writer
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Ear Only Reader True
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

Believe Standard Double Often
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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I've just always been a reader.

Always Been Just Reader
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.

Am Knowing Leave Knowing
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

Almost Boring Fear Pathological
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

After Because Fact Hundred
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

World Fiction Fit Likely
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Mind Admirable Good Book
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The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.

Art Passion Reading
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

About Anything Believe Know
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Action Before Dive Down
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

Accustomed Air Any Awe
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Ability Be Humble Became Countries
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

Answers Conclusions Every I Think
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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.

Also Any Because City
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Book Bored Readers Done
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Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Difficult Feelings I Think Independent
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Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Compete Culture Games High
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Readers Fiction Read Think
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

Critics Reach Readers Regardless
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It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

Call Cartoon Cartooning Could
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