Reader Quotes
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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've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.
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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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What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.
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Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
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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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There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.
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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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One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.
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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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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course it's ironic"?
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I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.
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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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Evidently what in the fiction of the story serves in all innocence to reach the heart of the reader becomes an abomination for one who feels the echo of the facts she has really lived.
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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
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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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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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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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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.
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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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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.
