Quotes of: Readers Keyword

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

Aforismi geniali di William Shakespeare.

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

iPooKee

-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change. -Because the reader changes. -EXACTLY

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The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Strange Bodies

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

The Savage Detectives

Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.

The Map of Time

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The Library at Night

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

The Last Resort

& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Everyone wavers between the emotionally still-alive past ad the already dead future. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

The Situationists and the City: A Reader

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

The Shadow of the Wind

Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.

Two Dogs At The One Dog Inn

I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it.

Post Marked

Beginning hook readers. Endings create fans.

The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master

What model reader did I want as i was writing? An accomplice, to be sure, one who would play my game.

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

Poor Things

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

Travels With Myself

The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base will disappear.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else.

The Uncommon Reader