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“A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.”

Way Eye Consciousness Seeing Reader Draws Refuse Versions Usual New Ways Good Writers Groove

Author:Bill Barich

“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.”

Kind Use Force Powerful Attention Consciousness Modern Fields Reader Areas All Kinds Operations Enterprise Listeners Viewers Staging Overloaded

Author:Saul Bellow

“The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.”

Needs Mind Book Consciousness Known Alive Reader

Book:Strange Bodies

Source: Strange Bodies

“Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.”

Consciousness Four Reader Understood Brilliant Divided Volume Imagery Dense

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .”

Ifs Humans Doe Two Eye Sound Human Beings Consciousness Sea Minutes Reader Explanation His Eyes Awkward Puzzled Compact

Book:The Magic of Shirley Jackson

Source: The Magic of Shirley Jackson

“I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make it work the same way I did with my juvenile mind - that is, to imagine how we are suffering. To record it being actual and then virtual.”

Way Giving Trying Mind Looks Suffering Consciousness Records Imagine Conditions Reader Inevitable Juvenile Deteriorating Vertigo

Author:Tony Burgess

“All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting.”

Persons Has Beens Soul Speak Process Forget Consciousness Childhood Awareness Identity Reader Remembered Fixed Your Children Plastic Trust Me Flux Awareness Of Others

Book:Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

Source: Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

“I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.”

People Thinking World Giving Different Moments Causes Consciousness Novel Perspective Reader Asking Not Sure Changing The World Single Mom

Author:Edan Lepucki

“I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now.”

Ifs Thinking Lines Brain Consciousness Reader Sitting Connected Where You Are Association Present Time

Author:William S. Burroughs

“The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly realized. And a huge facet of our psychic and existential make-ups is the things we're not proud of, things we didn't ask to experience, the scenarios we flubbed.”

Reading Asks Consciousness Huge Reader Proud Existential Psychics Scenarios Facets Immersing Yourself

Author:Joshua Mohr