Quotes About Engagement

I don't read the comments of fans, no.

People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their attention and they understand what you put in front of them, then they will read.

I think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry.

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.

If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.

A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.

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.

Will the reader turn the page?

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.

When you're so close to material, it would be as if you had come out of a bad marriage. You would be so close to it that you would be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader.

I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.

In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

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

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.