Quotes About Reader

The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

el autor se dará x satisfecho si el lector compra este libro

But satire, ever moral, ever new,Delights the reader and instructs him, too.She, if good sense refine her sterling page,Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

Der wahre Leser muss der erweiterte Autor sein.

Ben buraday?m sevgili okuyucum, sen neredesin acaba?

Romanc?lar için bulunmaz bir okuyucuyum Esat A?abey,' derdi. 'Birinci s?n?f okuyucu; hay?r, daha ileri: lüks okuyucu. Kitaplar?n?n böyle okundu?unu bilselerdi fakirler; bir türlü ölemezlerdi.

At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what "everyone" is saying, doing thinking - whoever "everyone" happens to be this year.

Beautiful feelings make bad literature. In which case, this precious state of prose is proof that I'm no devil after all. Ah, blessed be the man who coined this phrase! It is a treasure of the language. An author can get away with using it but once in his career. Sad to say. The first time, it's endearing. If you insist on using it a second or a third time, though, dear reader, hiding behind it like a shield, you can expect nothing but misery.

The helping hand is simply a sustained acceptance by the reader of the relation assumed by physical science to subsist between human consciousness on the one hand and, on the other, the familiar world of which that consciousness is aware.

Dark books say to us, "This isn't about you. You are in fact alive and safe." Yes, there's an implicit and unavoidable warning, an edge of danger; these things happen, the books say. And yet, as bad as it gets inside this book, you, the reader, are securely outside. If

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.

You cannot get emotionally involved in the writing, the object for the writer is to manipulate the reader so that the reader feels the emotion. Quote from a radio interview on the Reality Break show in 1997.

Any adult with an ID can get a free "reader identification" and use the library.

There are two types of masterpieces. There are the classic works monstrous and divine like Moby-Dick or Withering Heights or Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus. And then there is a type wherein the writer seems to infuse living energy into words as the reader is spun, wrung, and hung out to dry.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.

Even if it is true that the average man seems most comfortable with the commonplace and familiar, it is equally true that catering to bad taste, which we so readily attribute to the average reader, merely perpetuates that mediocrity and denies the reader one of the most easily accessible means for esthetic development and eventual enjoyment.

Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself.

The trouble with this kind of Hegelian prose is that the reader is at first amused by what seem to be harmless metaphors, and soon the metaphors are being used as if they were observable historical tendencies and aesthetic phenomenon, and next the metaphor becomes a stick to castigate those who have other tastes, and other metaphors.

The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn't do what I wanted it to do, I went home. I would lie alone In the dark, feeling that I was a character in a story that had lost its plot." Sann "Don't ever use the word tragedy again. You tell what happened, and let the reader say it's a tragedy. If you're crying, the reader won't.

There is particularly bitter irony for the modern reader in Damian's citation of traditional laws that rigorously punish child sex abusers, sending them to monastic prisons for the rest of their lives for a single offense. In the Book of Gomorrah we hear the voice of a prophet speaking to us over the span of centuries, reminding us of vital truths we have abandoned, and calling us to repentance.