The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.
A writer's heart must beat. A reader's heart must hear it.
I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.
I cherish my work and all of my readers.
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm. . . if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.
I'd like to think that what my style of writing is, is an attempt not so much to judge the characters that I'm writing about, to expose them, to label them, to stereotype them, but instead to make them come alive for the reader with all their strengths and their flaws intact.
A book brings its own history to the reader.
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.
He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
a good reader makes a good book
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.
In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together. '
Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.
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.