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 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
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
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
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
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
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. David Ogilvy English Businessman More David Ogilvy 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
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
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
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
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
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. Raoul Vaneigem Belgian Philosopher More Raoul Vaneigem Quotes 0
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. Diane Wakoski American Poet More Diane Wakoski Quotes 0
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. David Foster Wallace American Writer More David Foster Wallace Quotes 0
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art. David Foster Wallace American Writer More David Foster Wallace Quotes 0
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush. David Foster Wallace American Writer More David Foster Wallace Quotes 0
To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this. David Foster Wallace American Writer More David Foster Wallace Quotes 0