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Reader Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
- What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand…
- A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for…
- You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing…
- But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
- I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already…
- The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
More Reader Quotes
- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- 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
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! — Charles Baudelaire