Sentence examples for talking to the reader from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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

"Did you make that decision after talking to the publisher?" asked one reader, sharply, suggesting that a "happy" ending was always likely to "sell more copies".

When your camera and your phone and your car and your ebook reader are talking to the lamp post and your thermostat and your city's traffic control hub and every geo-located database on the internet, and maybe your toaster is tweeting, too, weird things are going to start happening.

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

That is really breaking the fourth wall (talking to your reader).