Books Quote by Leni Zumas Download Open image “There's relief in white space for the reader.” — Leni Zumas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Reader Relief Space White White space
I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written;… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant)… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language,… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
