Reader Quotes - page 41

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument. (George Steiner)
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together. View quote
Mary Oliver
The relationship between reader and writer in fiction is steeped in vulnerabilities. It really does require trust and faith because some books have the power to transform people. You feel like you can never go back, look at the world in the same way again. And that grand ambition is what I hope to do with my books because at the heart of my writing is a passion for telling stories of the oppressed, the marginalized, and the misunderstood. View quote
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I was a very keen reader of science fiction. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it. View quote
James Jones
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer. View quote
Nicole Krauss
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it. View quote
Nicole Krauss
the shop owner did not try to push the book on any of her customers. She knew that in the wrong hands such a book could easily be dismissed, or, worse, go unread. Instead she let it sit where it was in the hope that the right reader might discover it. View quote
Nicole Krauss
To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame. (Nicole Krauss)
Despereaux," she whispered. And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!" Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing. View quote
Kate DiCamillo
Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it. View quote
Anna Quindlen
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others. View quote
Anna Quindlen
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.' View quote
Ayelet Waldman
This film is extremely visual. It is difficult to describe in words without running the risk of losing or boring the reader. I have come up with a simplified summary, therefore, like a readers guide, which will conjure up the images in as few words as possible : - the beginning is Leon: The Professional - the middle is Inception - the end is 2001: A Space Odyssey Don't interpret this as pretension on my part, merely a visual, emotional and philosophical point of reference. View quote
Luc Besson
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
We need a leader, not a reader. View quote
Herman Cain
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story. View quote
Randy Pausch
Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter. (Robert Collier)
Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. View quote
John Leonard
The educated reader knows, as he reads me, that he is listening to a fugue in four voices. View quote
Albert Caraco
Well, I think it is accidental. It's just something I started doing naturally and it had a lot to do with reading. I think that Dylan Thomas, his prose and poetry, was a big influence on me. Just his use of words... He would use so many odd words: like these three- and four-syllable words that you just don't normally hear. And they're not used in a manner that sets the text apart from the reader. Rather they're drawing the reader in. It's entirely based on the alliteration of the word itself-onomatopoeia and things like that. I feel like a lot of the words I use don't stick out in the song because they keep the feel of the song in mind. The rhythm-that's the primary thing. They're put in there for rhythm and alliteration as much as they are for meaning. And as long as they are not used extraneously, they're real lightning rods for people listening to the lyrics. If the words are really helping out the rhythm of the song then all they're going to do is draw the listener in even more. View quote
Colin Meloy
The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given. View quote
Paul Theroux