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What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

— Stephen Greenblatt

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

— Ron Rash

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

— Cynthia Voigt

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

— Alexander Cockburn

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

— Dave Morris

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

— Michael Chabon

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

— Mark Millar

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

— Michael Koryta

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

— Sam Mendes

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

— Nigel Kneale

✗Opposing Perspectives

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

— Greg Bear