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As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.


Jay Asher
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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
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
Tags: Want Kind Story
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
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
George Saunders
Tags: You Just More
As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that's the most important thing my readers should know - I'm all about the story, not about the ego.
Simon Toyne
Tags: About Get Out
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.


Dean Acheson
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The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.


Henryk Sienkiewicz
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
Hilary Mantel
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To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders
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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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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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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
The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
Mark Billingham
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
Alice Munro
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My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
John Green
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How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?
Kenneth Branagh
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
Ralph Fiennes
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There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.
Ruth Ozeki
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