Rich Sommer Quotes
Im pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if its become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic Im interested in.
Quotes to Explore
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.
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Headlines from the avian flu situation continue to weigh on overall consumer sentiment towards chicken in China.
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I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.
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What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
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Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said
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The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know.
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I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me!
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
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It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.
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Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.
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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
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The fact that 'Scrubs' is so popular in Israel is very important to me. I feel like I'm helping to cancel out the thousands of years of oppression the Jewish people have suffered.
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Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.
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I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
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I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!
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Im pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if its become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic Im interested in.
