“Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.” MenDifferentReaderPositive AtheismSectsCertificatesDifferent Meanings Book:Some Mistakes of Moses Source: Some Mistakes of Moses
“I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.” MindMeanDifferentInterestingReaderMessagesDetailsProvidingDelivering Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary." These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.” WorldLooksSaidDifferentNovelReaderLettersLook UpComplimentFinestDictionaryDifferent WorldsSingle WordLexicon Author:Randall Jarrell
“The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.” WayShouldBookDifferentIndividualNovelCreativeReaderFinishedDifferent WaysInvitesLife ExperienceIndividual Life Author:Alan Lightman
“A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.” YearsTwoBookDifferentNovelReaderGood BookDifferent Place Author:Alan Lightman
“Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.” BookDifferentHardStyleReaderBuyersDifferent Styles Author:Kevin Sampsell
“But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her. If the concept of identification suggested that an individual experiences a work as a mirror in which he might recognize himself, the notion of relatability implies that the work in question serves like a selfie: a flattering confirmation of an individual's solipsism.” IfsBookDifferentDonePlayMightFacesIndividualReaderDemandExpectationsConceptsMirrorsRemainsNotionPassiveViewersRelatableFlatteringIdentificationConfirmationWork To Be DoneSolipsismRelatability Author:Rebecca Mead
“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.” WritingMindMaySaidDifferentAgeLiteratureLeftNationsBehindsAttentionMankindFashionReaderTastePerformancesDressesMannersCombinationRecallsPersuasionLeft BehindImageryVaryAccommodateDifferent Minds Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752 Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752