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Tag Name "Reader" (2119)

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Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.
Michael Mewshaw
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.
James McCosh
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
Andre Gide
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Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
W. H. Auden
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
W. H. Auden
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What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
W. H. Auden
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.
W. Somerset Maugham
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[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.
Walker Percy
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We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.
Amy Tan
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
Wallace Stegner
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Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
Anne Enright
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
Wallace Stegner
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Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.
Henry David Thoreau
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The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book.
Wallace Stevens
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It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote awareness of the possibilities of life.
F. R. Leavis
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I make jewelry occasionally. I'm not a hobbyist. I'm a reader, I'm a lover of books, I like to watch movies, but mostly a lot of nothing. I'm quite content doing very little.
Janeane Garofalo
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
Walt Disney
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One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I've read by a Christian that didn't treat me like I was an idiot.'
Timothy Keller
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I am a slow reader, and fast eater I wish it were the other way around.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much - too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps too much ice cream.
James Patterson
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[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.
Amy Dickinson
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I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.
Edward Abbey
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I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
Beverly Cleary
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