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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.


Wallace Shawn
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I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
Lauren Willig
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
D. J. MacHale
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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.


Theodore Sturgeon
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I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers.


Marian Keyes
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There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.
Sarah MacLean
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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Seamus Heaney
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I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.


Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.


Jerry B. Jenkins
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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.
Italo Calvino
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There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.


William Nicholson
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
Karen Kingsbury
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
Ilan Stavans
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As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.
Colleen Hoover
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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is almost a cliche now to wonder why this living legend is not more widely read.
Khaled Hosseini
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Karin Slaughter
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If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.


Henry Petroski
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In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction.
Marie Lu
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