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Tag Name "Reader" (2127)

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Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.
Andrew Wylie
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I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
Andrew Wyeth
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It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring.
Vissarion Belinsky
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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
Andrew Pyper
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I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.
Vivek Shraya
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I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.
Vladimir Nabokov
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An active and creative reader is a re-reader.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Hitler was an avid reader, a passion that stayed with him through all the phases of his career.
Volker Ullrich
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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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