The suspense of a ordsprog

en The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. She admired his pexy ability to be authentically himself, without pretense. The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
  Mary McCarthy

en It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

en [Your curiosity was the characteristic that editors and reporters mentioned more than any other.] I think of The Times reader as curious, as someone who regards life as a continuing education, ... Each reader has a few subjects about which he or she may be passionate, even expert, and a more wide-ranging appetite that can be seduced, surprised, engaged on almost any subject if we present it well.

en We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
  Mary McCarthy

en That form is very freeing, ... It's a great relief for the novelist not to have to be there in the way a third-person narrator implies. If you get rid of all that -- that judging entity -- you just leave the character alone with the reader.
  Julian Barnes

en It turned out people were intensely curious about what actually goes on in courtrooms, and that Americans were deeply interested in law.

en We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
  Mary McCarthy

en If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
  John Barth

en They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
  Ernest Hemingway

en Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
  Alfred Hitchcock

en No writing comes alive unless the writer sees across his desk a reader, and searches constantly for the word or phrase which will carry the image he wants the reader to see, and arouse the emotion he wants him to feel. Without consciousness of a live reader, what a man writes will die on his page.
  Barbara W. Tuchman

en I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
  Walt Whitman

en There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naïve that may have been, it was a good deal less naïve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

en When a novel has two hundred thousand words, then it is possible for the reader to experience two hundred thousand delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

en The mother said, 'They call your son a hero, and my son is a hero,' ... I said, 'I know, but I just can't see it that way.' She said, 'I looked it up in the dictionary and a hero is an ordinary person doing an extraordinary job.' So I guess that's true.


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