Darryl Pinckney Quotes

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

A reader's eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.

Write about what you care about. If you do that, you're probably going to do your best writing, reach off the page and touch the reader. How are you going to make the reader care if you don't care yourself?

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, "Am I popular?" I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

I have no interest in playing 'perfect.' To me, it's more about being an entertainer. Having a connection with the audience.

My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'

I read every single comment that comes in.

You can't be like, 'Alright, I'm going to make this viral!' You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me, but it does get old for me when my audience is just only interested in something they've already heard.

You can't worry too much about what you think the audience wants to hear. You just have to hope that you're a likeable enough person that what you're saying will relate to other people, so they can laugh at it as well.

Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you could connect with the people who are listening to your music and coming to your concerts and coming to your meet and greets, then you're doing your job well.

I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that I could say the rhyme, and feel like it's them saying it.

In acting class they tell you that you have to be real, connect with the people, connect with your partner. The same as politics, you have to connect to the people.

We just make stuff that we think is funny and fun, and I think that's the most you can do. I think if you're chasing virality, it just feels desperate.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

No one reads to hear someone complain about the weather or how poorly their children are behaving. You have to give the readers a reason to turn the page. As a writer you have to invite someone to turn the page. And that is a skill you have to refine. That is why you have to read. You have to read to learn what it is that makes people turn the page.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.