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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Paper Patient Reader
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Conceal About Reader Tell
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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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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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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 writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

Writer Tricking Reader Dream
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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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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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