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    Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

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    Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

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    Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

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    Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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    Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

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    Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

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    Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses

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    Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

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    Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

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    My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

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    My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

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    My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.

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    My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

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    My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

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    My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.

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    My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

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    My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

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    My website bulletin board is the place I interact with my readers.

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    Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.

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    My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

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    My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

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    My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

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    My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

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    My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

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    No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

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    Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

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    No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.

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    O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

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    Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

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    No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

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    One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

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    Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

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    One of the many things that surprised me about Wool is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.

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    Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

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    Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

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    Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

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    Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.

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    Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

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    Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

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    Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

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    Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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    Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

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    Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

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    Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

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    Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

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    Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.

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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.

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    Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

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    Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.

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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.