Reader Quotes

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There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and… — Kate DiCamillo
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a… — Maurice Blanchot
Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in… — George Saunders
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND… — John Irving
a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in… — Roland Smith
Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully... — Samuel R. Delany
The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. — Kate DiCamillo
Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku. — Douglas Hofstadter
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way. — Stephen King
He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair… — Kate DiCamillo
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In… — Neil Postman
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western… — Carlos Fuentes
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of… — Vladimir Nabokov
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the… — Romain Rolland
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... — Barbara Pym
I love reading another readerâ€™s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination. — Alice Hoffman
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of… — Julio Cortazar
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the… — Julio Cortazar
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words… — Walter Mosley

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