Adversaries Quote by Jonathan Franzen Download Open image “The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.” — Jonathan Franzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversaries Books Friendship Reader Spectators Writing
Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There’s always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best -… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole -… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy and yourself,… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's like I'm married to the silencer, Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers. Do art with your arteries, place that for… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
“The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Often GOP political strategy seems like the human wave theory of the Chinese military translated to politics. Where Beijing uses masses of soldiers to… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
