"A writer is a reader moved to emulation."
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"When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it."
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"The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you."
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"Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed."
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"I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again."
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"If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry."
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"Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists"
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"God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be."
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"I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life."
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"The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar."
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"The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with."
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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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"An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer."
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"I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself."
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"George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in."
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"I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer."
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"I'd been a thriller reader all my life."
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"Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read."
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"My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud."
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"Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these."
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