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A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.
Steven Erikson
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow
Tags: You Me Just
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.


Isaac Hayes
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The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
Mark Billingham
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.


Dean Acheson
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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.


Michael Ondaatje
Tags: Get Out Story
First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.
Debbie Macomber
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Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
John Hodgman
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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.


Paulo Coelho
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Garry Disher
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It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.


Bobbie Ann Mason
Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.
Susan Hill
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
Sara Zarr
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Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.


David A. Adler
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.


Robert Louis Stevenson
Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Tags: Good More Than
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.


Margaret Atwood
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My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.


Bret Michaels
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The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.


Rumer Godden
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