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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. -- Mitch Albom
I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean. -- Daniel Okrent
The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking. -- Mark Billingham
Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions. -- Morris Gleitzman
My problem is never ideas. I've got more than I'll ever have time to write. It's all about how many I can get to, and which ones readers want to see the most. -- Rick Riordan
There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes. -- James Patterson
My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history. -- Wayne Dyer
If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story. -- Lydia Davis
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. -- George F. Kennan
I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction. -- James Rollins
There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy. -- Novala Takemoto
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next? -- William Zinsser
I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have. -- Stan Lee

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