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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer’s job.
– Sara Sheridan

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  1. All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
  2. There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers – as many different responses as there are readers. – Sara Sheridan
  3. Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers’ job specification. – Sara Sheridan
  4. The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. – Robert Galbraith
  5. I’m a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online. – Sara Sheridan
  6. I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do. – Sara Sheridan
  7. Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination. – Sandra Alex
  8. Writers of novels live in a strange world where what’s made up is as important as what’s real. – Sara Sheridan
  9. Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you’ve heard is true. – Sara Sheridan
  10. Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. – Sara Sheridan
  11. Crime writers, I’ve noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven’t been caught yet! – Sara Sheridan
  12. Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric. – Sara Sheridan
  13. Writers need each other. – Sara Sheridan
  14. I’d never be where I am if more successful writers hadn’t taken an interest in me and done me a good turn. – Sara Sheridan
  15. Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops. – Sara Sheridan
  16. Scotland consistently produces world-class writers. – Sara Sheridan
  17. I’m a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events. – Sara Sheridan
  18. I spend a lot of time imagining things – in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job. – Sara Sheridan
  19. The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession. – Sara Sheridan
  20. The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession. – Sara Sheridan
  21. It’s part of a writer’s job to be nosy about everything. – Sara Sheridan
  22. Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine. – Sara Sheridan
  23. I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. – Sara Sheridan
  24. I didn’t want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing ???? All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank. – Sara Sheridan
  25. Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry Truman
  26. My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. – Soraya Diase Coffelt
  27. The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current – part of a continuum. – Sara Sheridan
  28. When doing a job -” any job -” one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. – Hyman G Rickover
  29. You don’t think any job’s a job unless it’s your job. – Last Man Standing
  30. So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life. – Sunday Adelaja
  31. When you are desperately grabbing at straws all you get is a handful of weeds. – Stephen Richards
  32. This is what life is about: seeing new places, meeting new people, grabbing life by the balls and squeezing until it coughs up a story worth telling. – Ruth Cardello
  33. Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. – Tom Hodgkinson
  34. The woman eyed Ubie a moment before grabbing a pen and writing down the dates I had. Ubie eyed her back. Sparks flew. – Darynda Jones
  35. There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness. – Lauren Oliver
  36. Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost. – Todd Stocker
  37. Grabbing someone’s ass doesn’t count as capturing them! – Kathy Bryson
  38. Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves. – Mohsin Hamid
  39. Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy. – Ian McEwan
  40. When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it. – Tracy Kidder

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