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The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go. — Ronald Frame

You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer. — Saru Singhal

Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best. — Aaron Shepard

A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters. — T. E. Hulme

I'm more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I'll never go back and read one twice. — Deb Baker

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Entertaining the reader is a good function. — David Denby

As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat. — David S.E. Zapanta

With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout. — Rainbow Rowell

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin. — Victor J. Banis

Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden. — Marie De Gournay

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story! — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

I am obsessed with good buying books — Lailah Gifty Akita

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. — E.L. Doctorow

How do you crush spirit? You take out all the good. — S.A. Tawks

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend. — Gabrielle Dubois

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first. — Karen Thompson Walker

The starting point for becoming a good writer is to be a good reader. — Steven Pinker

This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him. — S.A. Tawks

So you're a reader," My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection. — Denis Markell

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way. — Amy Dickinson

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader. — Eric Hoffer

In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey. — Victor LaValle

A good friend of mine once said, I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. — Marion Dane Bauer

Good writing is a mirror of the mind where readers can see themselves again and again. — Debasish Mridha

a good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message. — Jonathan Wallace

I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. — Maggie Stiefvater

A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader's mind. — Debasish Mridha

Good writing ain't necessarily good reading. — Ken Kesey

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that. — Donald Ray Pollock

We expect a great man to be a good reader. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy the material. — Charles Clark

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place! — Carl William Brown

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. — Stephen E. Ambrose

a good reader makes a good book — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. — Charles Caleb Colton

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made. — Bob Mayer

When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener. — Sonia Rumzi

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer. — Zadie Smith

The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision. — John Gaddis

I am not a good cue card reader. — Adam Carolla

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader. — Nuruddin Farah

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader. — Vladimir Nabokov

Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart. — Charles Dickens

Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself. — Julia Quinn

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener. — Joseph Bruchac

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that. — Lynne Tillman

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. — Vladimir Nabokov

A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction. — Thomas Maltman

To be a good writer you must be a good reader". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way. — Stephen King

A good writer is an excellent reader. — Cyci Cade

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life. — Herve Le Tellier

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly. — Jen Knox

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing. — Robert Caro

Read. You can always talk with another reader. — Rorke Denver

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science. — Terry Pratchett

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you. — Michael Arrington

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. — Vivienne Westwood

Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind. — John Green

The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal. — Rod Serling

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader. — W.J. Raymond

You've got to be a good date for the reader. — Kurt Vonnegut

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. — David McCullough

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no better adviser than a good book. — Debasish Mridha

All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell. — Ramsey Isler

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments. — David Benioff

A good reader has the power to move the world. — Aman Jassal

You must learn to read well, Marisa. As long as you're a good reader, you can learn anything, do anything. — Anna Jeffrey

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. — John Barton

A good novel takes the reader into the heart of another person. It lands you smack into the life and times of someone else. — Mark Rubinstein

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun. — Kevin Smokler

For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater punishments. — Joss Sheldon

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. — Carl Hiaasen

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader. — John Petrucci

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet. — Phyllis McGinley