“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.” WholeStoriesReadingAsksImaginationAbilityCreativeWrittenReaderPagesWhole LifeLife ExperienceWritten WordCreative Imagination Author:Katherine Paterson
“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them.” PeopleIfsWorldWayWantMeanStillsI CanBookCultureReadingAsksAnswersFictionChangedReturnReaderScandal Book:Conversations with Philip Roth Source: Conversations with Philip Roth
“If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.” IfsLooksBookAgeReadingAsksParentReaderTreasureTalesDictionary Author:Gloria Estefan
“The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.” PeopleIfsWorldKindMayHandsChristianAsksImaginationPoorHellAtheismReaderTerribleDevilInjusticePositive AtheismCrueltyNew WorldPoor PeopleBeggarMasquerade Author:Bartolome de las Casas
“One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.” PeopleIfsGivingWritingPersonsBookGuyAsksReaderCoffeeShopsShyHobbiesBest PlaceCoffee ShopSketchingShy Person Author:Laurie Helgoe
“A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.” DifferentMightAsksViewsNovelReaderConversationStartingPoint Of ViewHopefullyStarting PointDifferent Points Of View Author:Anne Fortier
“I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.” WayBelieveArtAsksLanguageI BelieveDifficultChallengesAnswersSeriousReaderArgumentMetaphorWorks Of ArtEssaysDifficult Questions Author:George Steiner