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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

Meeting Writer Reader Intimate
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Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.

Read Remote Southwest Tradition
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Everlasting Ignorant Lazy More
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Expectation Kind Meet Myself
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Conceal About Reader Tell
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

Always Book Tour Meet
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I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance.

Aware Big Ignorance Own
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

Assistant Could Dad Exactly
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I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

About Always Career Come
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Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.

According Acting Agent Caused
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I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

Being Gotten Know Number
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Category Expectations Framework Knowing
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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

Wrote Story What Really
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

Away Editors Flattery Giving
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I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

Big Book Comic ComicBook
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I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
Fast ICan Kids Kitchen
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

Because Books Fun Grew
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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Reader Introductions Pleasure Kill
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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

About How Intelligent Mind
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence Advise Another Any
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Generation Only Readers Span
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Affect Difficulty Him Literature
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Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Certain Could Institution Longer
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It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

Adventure Amusing Any Book
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

Demand Devote He His
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

Admire Art Become Creative
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility
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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.

Changes Idea Keen Life
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

Becomes Eyes God Over
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

The joy Reading fiction The novel Belongs
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An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

Author Reader Depths Thoughts
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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Readers Plentiful Thinkers Rare
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A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

A reader Really see The characters Feels them
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Readers are of two sorts: one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him.

Readers Two sorts Goes carefully A book
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A book exists at the intersection of the author’s subconscious and the reader’s response

Books Author's Reader's Response
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The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

Theater Mind Idea Character
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The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Writer Tricking Reader Dream
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It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

Wait Reader God Observer
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Journalism Readers History Live
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance

Poetry Reader Thoughts
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Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

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

Reader Author's Intent Reality
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Say Words Reader Plainest
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Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

Readers Lose Weak Mind
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Pleasure Emotion Writer Reader
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