Sentence examples for talk to the reader from inspiring English sources

The book is a very self-conscious kind of metafiction: you talk to the reader, you address the reader.

He finds plenty of time to talk to the reader at the top of his voice in his era's hip patois, an amalgam of Russian (the political implications of this are not explored), gypsy jargon, rhyming slang and a touch of schoolboy's facetious-biblical.

Moreover, by talking to the reader rather than to other characters, he engenders the illusion of direct eye contact.

I'm talking to the reader directly in those moments: "You've read the same books that I've read.

(The other advantages are no longer bothering with sunscreen and no longer worrying about your cholesterol)." Part of the power of the piece — and this is what had journalists around the country posting it on their Twitter feeds — is that Ms. Lotter is talking to the reader from the grave.

I had tried to describe the beauty and openness of the countryside, and the poem closed with the grass whispering "come," as though it were talking to the reader and expressed the feeling I'd had when I saw the painting.

He's a pal, a confidant who talks to the reader as though the two of you were swapping stories at the Four Seasons.

"We make editors and reporters available for online questioning by readers, a feature called 'Talk to the Newsroom.' We publish reader letters in several places, and post comments on many of our online stories.

James Naughtie and readers talk to the American writer and artist Art Spiegelman about his graphic novel Maus.

As he once made a point of involving patients' families in their care, he invites his own family members to talk directly to the reader.

His girlfriend is you!" Short, bald, big-nosed, barefoot, Ziggy was actually meant to be all of us, as Ziggy might say (he likes to talk directly to the reader), as we stumble through the frustrations, ironies and disappointments of life.