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• The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

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• It takes a great reader to make a great book.

  Orna Ross

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• Some say it is the elements of hope and wonder in children’s books that make them special. But there are many dark young adult novels these days. Adults loved Harry Potter, though it was written for the young. In the end, it is probably up to the reader of any age to decide if this book is for him or her.

  Katherine Paterson

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• 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.

  Katherine Paterson

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• I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

  Linda Sue Park

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• I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

  Khaled Hosseini

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

  Anthony Horowitz

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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 like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

  Aleksandar Hemon

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• There isn’t any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it.

  Dermot Healy

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• Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

  Joanne Harris

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• The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it’s literature.

  Whitley Strieber

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• I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don’t feel like I’m meeting someone who feels real, I’m not going to be compelled to read further.

  Maggie Stiefvater

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  It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

  Paul Gallico

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• Well, I was always really mature for my age. I’m an above-age reader. I’m not trying to come off like, ‘I have a high IQ number. My parents gave me the test.’ That’s the way I was, I guess. I am still a kid. I love doing kid activities. I’m such a kid, but when I’m on set, I do like to be professional.

  Atticus Shaffer

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  A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

  George R.R. Martin

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  The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That’s why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

  Paulo Coelho

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• 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

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• Early on, a story’s meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it – and so things have to be ramped up.

  George Saunders

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• The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I’ll hush.

  David Foster Wallace

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