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Author Quotes by John Green
- Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does…
- Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in…
- I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did…
- And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that…
- But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous.…
- Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend.…
- If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt…
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- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out… — Robert Benchley
- I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of… — Robert Benchley
- There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the… — Robert Benchley
- Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to… — Sarah Bernhardt
- You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. — Jeff Bezos