Reader Quotes
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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
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Al Bernstein has seen cable television sports grow up. In 30 Years/30 Undeniable Truths he looks at his time in the industry through a prism that is unique to him. This book gives the reader an insight into the sometimes absurd world of television sports. There is a 31st undeniable truth: Al Bernstein is a truly funny man.
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I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.
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I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are.
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It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
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I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.
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One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.
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The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader.
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But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
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Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
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It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families, their communities, and their Maker.
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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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I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.
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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
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The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.
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Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.
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The judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.
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The book is famous for two things: It's an early reader for kids with its simple language. And the second thing is how the fantastic illustrations show dogs doing human things.
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The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.
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For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
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I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.
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We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.
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And writing in a foreign language, you come to realise how words create not only a single image but a series of images, so that if the image created in the mind of the writer is different from the image in the mind of the reader, there will not be complete understanding between them.
