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Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass. ↗

#readers-and-writers #writing-craft #writing-craft

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers. ↗

#difficult #hearers #keep #more #readers

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#aware #better #conveyed #even #fiction

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#course #dead #democracy #else #everything

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. ↗

— Dave Barry

#column #crazy #declining #fact #good

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#love #only #only love #place #readers

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. ↗

— Judy Blume

#books #censorship #due #fear #losers

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#believe #both #communicator #enable #i

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#ago #books #contest #every #go

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#i #long #narrative #passages #readers