The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No… — John Caples Copy Share Image
“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sara Creasy is a new writer to watch, and Song of Scarabaeus is a novel to read and enjoy. . . .… — Vonda N. McIntyre Copy Share Image
I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy… — Charles Clark Copy Share Image
I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history… — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Copy Share Image
When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences. — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive… — Charlotte Mendelson Copy Share Image
Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
I try as hard as I know how to keep my reader relating on a broad level so I don't lead her… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me. — Bill Peet Copy Share Image
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
