Quotes About Reader

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my smartphone.

As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime," he said. "I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life.

make a comparative exercise useful. Such an exercise will serve not only to sensitize the American reader to the distinctive features of the British polity but also to make readers more aware of the features

Some kinds of literature demand to be treated respectfully. The obligation is on the reader to live up to them and not so much on them to entertain the reader.

La mia letteratura è emotiva, le mie storie sono emotive; l'unico spazio che ha il testo per durare è quello emozionale. ... Dopo due righe, il lettore deve essere schiavizzato, incapace di liberarsi dalla pagina; deve trovarsi coinvolto fino al parossismo, deve sudare e prendere cazzotti, e ridere, e guaire, e provare estremo godimento. Questa è letteratura.

A great number of elements in the characters' lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I believe, enjoy a much greater autonomy than we usually think, and are able to take initiatives unknown both to the writer and the reader. When characters have their own will, their own autonomy, it gives the literary universe a greater internal mobility; it also makes the texts through which we view this world all the more open and incomplete.

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.

All of us technology companies need to create some tools that help diminish the volume of fake news. We must try to squeeze this without stepping on freedom of speech and of the press, but we must also help the reader.

The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure, and even if I did, what business would I, who feel like the sick one, have in offering it? It's hard to consider literature a medicine; sooner or later the therapeutically minded reader will end up fingering reading itself as the sickness.

No digo esto con la más pequeña intención de disminuir las muchas virtudes de aquel excelente rey, cuyos méritos, sin embargo, temo que habrán de quedar muy mermados a los ojos del lector inglés con este motivo; pero juzgo que este defecto tiene por origen la ignorancia de aquel pueblo, que todavía no ha reducido la política a una ciencia

The reader may remember, that when I signed those articles upon which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of their being too servile; neither

Knjiga je nekaj ve? kot besedna struktura. Je dialog, ki ga za?ne s svojim bralcem. Ta dialog je neskon?en, književnost je neiz?rpna, in to zaradi zelo preprostega razloga - ker je vsaka knjiga taka. Knjiga ni stvar brez komunikacije: je razmerje, je opora neštetih razmerij.

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.

Poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Before I ever wrote a single line, I knew, in some mysterious and therefore unequivocal way, that I was destined for literature. What I didn't realize at first is that besides being destined to be a reader, I was also destined to be a writer, and I don't think one is less important than the other.

A quien leyere Si las páginas de este libro consienten algún verso feliz, perdóneme el lector la descortesía de haberlo usurpado yo, previamente. Nuestras nadas poco difieren; es trivial y fortuita la circunstancia de que tú seas el lector de estos ejercicios, y yo su redactor.

Un romanzo o una poesia non è un monologo, bensì una conversazione tra uno scrittore e un lettore: una conversazione, ripeto, del tutto privata, che esclude tutti gli altri – un atto, se si vuole, di reciproca misantropia.

Characters are supposed to have understandable motivations. The reader is supposed to be able to relate to them.