Reader S Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,…
— Ben Okri
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The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’
— Terry Pratchett
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Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.
— Sidney Hook
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Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly…
— Lewis Buzbee
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The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for and…
— Andre Alexis
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It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.
— Don Roff
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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
— Christopher Logue
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The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something…
— Claude C. Hopkins
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Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re…
— Janet Fitch
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The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the…
— Walker Evans
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
— Stephen King
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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.
— Stephen King
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Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.
— Siri Hustvedt
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Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly,…
— Ruth Ozeki
Who Wrote These Reader S Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Reader S Quotes as follows: