Quotes About Impact

It's awesome that my job is to make people have reactions.

I know I create major reactions in people.

Going as far back as 'Dexter's Lab,' we've always had these sequences with no dialogue. The interesting thing is those sequences got the biggest reactions.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

I think Amazon has been great for readers.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.