Jennifer A. Nielsen Quotes

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

If there are 100 people, I don't anticipate all 100 liking my scenario - but I write it so at least one or two of them will love and get really into that particular story.

People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

I really write for people.

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.

I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can relate to and care about. If you are writing only for a tiny elite, then that surely should sound alarm bells.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

You have to have a strong idea for a hit movie, a strong core idea that resonates emotionally. It also has to technically achieve its goal - it's got to be well-written, well-paced, and interestingly told.