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A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.
Steven Erikson
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Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
Deborah Eisenberg
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.
Sarah MacLean
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.


Dean Acheson
I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.
Brian Keene
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The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.


Henryk Sienkiewicz
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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.


Michael Ondaatje
Tags: Get Out Story
While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
Jim Ratcliffe
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Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
Peter B. Lewis
The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
Francesca Annis
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
Gloria Naylor
This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them.
Mario Lemieux
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Garry Disher
Tags: You Were Many
Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.
Hilary Mantel
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Any time I get to play Dick Casablancas is always a pleasure.


Ryan Hansen
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We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.
David Belle
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Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.
Susan Hill
The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
Mark Billingham
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
Penelope Leach