Reader Comes Quotes
- I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. — Helen Dunmore
- A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in… — Vivian Gornick
- There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which… — Joyce Carol Oates
- Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,… — Mary Gaitskill
- I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes… — Flannery O'Connor
- 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… — Jorge Luis Borges