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Reader Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with…
- Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if…
- The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book,…
- If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
- A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation…
- I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many…
- Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they…
- I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
- A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes…
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