Reader Quotes
The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.
In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.
A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.
I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.
The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.
When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.
Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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"?
There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.
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.
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge
If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.
You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.
I've always loved J.R.R. Tolkein and recently, Christine Feehan and J.K.Rowling. There are many as I'm an avid reader, but those three come to the fore.
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.
The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.
The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.
With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.
Eat your heart out, Rowling. Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.