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Reader Quotes by Billy Collins
- Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started.…
- Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can…
- The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it…
- The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she…
More Reader Quotes
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary
- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels
- As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles
- Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want… — J. Michael Straczynski