A Quote by Dave Morris

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

Dave Morris

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Prefer Readers Relate World

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Dave Morris
British - Author
Born: March 19, 1957

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

Jeff Abbott

Some people prefer a world where we're all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don't think that world exists.

Angela Duckworth

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I prefer to do roles that I can relate to.

Sai Pallavi

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

Sarah Dessen

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

George Meyer

'Batman' readers are the smartest readers in the world. I don't have to hold their hands.

Tom King

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Pema Chodron

LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world.

Kathy Acker

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Barbara Kingsolver

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

Louis Begley

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

Henry Watson Fowler

People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

James Nesbitt

The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.

Christie Hefner

I know beating a woman isn't like winning seven gold medals. But how many old guys are there in the world? You think they can relate to Mark Spitz? They relate to me, Bobby Riggs.