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On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.
Jim Lehrer

Time, Daily, Through

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
Jim Lehrer

Faith, Great, Together

When I read, I'm purely a reader.
Anne Tyler

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.
Thorne Smith

Leaving, Around, Moral

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
John Green

True, Book, Person

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Care, Long, Trying

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Life, Making, Characters

I want a kiss to be so believable it gives the reader shivers.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Kiss, Believable, Gives

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Give, Sense, Full

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Money, Wise, Said

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Mind, True, Write

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Between, Difficult, Writer

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing, Between, Reading

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Wife, Writing, Everything

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Enjoy, Write, Needs

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams

Good, Someone, Why

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.
Jo Nesbo

Life, Big, Youth

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.
Jo Nesbo

Change, Good, Book

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.
Jo Nesbo

Great, Writing, Before

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
Henning Mankell

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.
Keira Knightley

Words, Strange, Loved

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'
Mitch Albom

Book, Two, Wait

Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.
Mitch Albom

Mind, Keep, Write

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.
Leo Burnett

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
Piers Anthony

Write, Fiction, Novel

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
Davy Jones

Bad, Times, Hear

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
Gary Ross

End, Book, Writing

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

Fear, Greatest, Book

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
Anthony Horowitz

Perfect, She, Read

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
Amy Tan

Family, Knew, Anybody

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