O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 54
A book whose sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three. Italian Proverb More Italian Proverb Quotes 2
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. Joseph Lancaster English Educator More Joseph Lancaster Quotes 1
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. James Laughlin American Poet More James Laughlin Quotes 0
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. James Laughlin American Poet More James Laughlin Quotes 0
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. James Laughlin American Poet More James Laughlin Quotes 0
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. Comte de Lautreamont French Poet More Comte de Lautreamont Quotes 0
At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction. Margaret Mahy New Zealander Author More Margaret Mahy Quotes 0
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. Margaret Mahy New Zealander Author More Margaret Mahy Quotes 0
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded. Ted Nelson American Author More Ted Nelson Quotes 0
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. Howard Nemerov American Poet More Howard Nemerov Quotes 0
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that. Gary Oldman English Actor More Gary Oldman Quotes 0
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 0
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. Michael Ondaatje Canadian Author More Michael Ondaatje Quotes 0
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. Salvatore Quasimodo Italian Author More Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes 0
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. Pierre Salinger American Public Servant More Pierre Salinger Quotes 0
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading. Nathalie Sarraute Russian Lawyer More Nathalie Sarraute Quotes 0
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin French Lawyer More Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes 0
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. Dick Schaap American Journalist More Dick Schaap Quotes 0
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant. Amy Tan American Novelist More Amy Tan Quotes 0
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem. Allen Tate American Poet More Allen Tate Quotes 0
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! William Makepeace Thackeray English Novelist More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes 0
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment. Jack Vance American Author More Jack Vance Quotes 0