Quotes of: Readers Keyword

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Tom Wolfe

I'd like my readers to feel they want to follow my characters off the page at the end of the book.

Love

Chapter one is where you reach out your hand to the reader and say, "Come, let's have an adventure together.

Life

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

William Lyon Phelps

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

William Safire

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Zadie Smith

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the pe...

Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose

The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases ...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

An author needs a lot more than one person to succumb to his literary seductive charms, but, like Saul, he must realize that he doesn't have to--and indeed cannot--capture the hearts of every possible reader out there. No matter who the writer, his i...

The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist: A Book for Writers, Teachers, Publishers, and Anyone Else Devoted to Fiction

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and p...

Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader

As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible v...

A Certain World: A Commonplace Book

The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the very meaning of ambition so totally that it now registers as an act of disdain, a hostility to the poor common reade...

Ben Marcus

The truthfulness of 'The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism' is in doubt largely because of uncertainty about its authorship, and, as we have seen, a nearly identical ambiguity surrounds the Appendix. The parallel is significant. Two ps...

Love

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

A Dance with Dragons

An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.

Enough About Love

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

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