Reader Quotes
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You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.
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But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.
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I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
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I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.
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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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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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I believe it’s something that happens when one is around art, and when one is close to books: they seep into your system, into your blood, and start to activate something in your life. We start living in the way that some of these characters live, with some sense of their sensibility. It’s almost as if the reader becomes the writer and the writer becomes the reader…
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Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
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Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it
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Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.
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If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.
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But I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.
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The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.
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I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.
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I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.
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Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!
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But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.
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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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I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.
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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 hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.
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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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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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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.
