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“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Whole Reading Differences Poet Personality Reader Sitting

Author:James Laughlin

“The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.”

Ideas Common Tears Personality Reader Sentences Tendencies Quotations Criteria One Sentence Disheartening

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”

Needs Moments Past Memories Conditions Events Particular Personality Reader Elements Response Determine Mood Combination Traits Preoccupation Personality Traits Past Events

Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

“Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.”

Made Desire Animal Personality Reader Intrigued

Book:Bill Peet: An Autobiography

Source: Bill Peet: An Autobiography

“You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable surprise. Any number of devices will do the job.... These seeming amusements in fact become your 'style.' When we say we like the style of certain writers, what we mean is that we like their personality as they express it on paper.”

Way Giving Writing Mean Facts Jobs Certain Numbers Style Personality Reader Paper Surprise Entertainment Devices Amusement Enjoyable Seeming

Author:William Zinsser

“It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.”

Writing Book Seems My Own Sin Personality Reader Healthy Originals Intention Deny Commit Enjoyed Novelists Cowardice Imaginary Inheritance Innate Cautious Propensity Original Sin Proxy

Author:Anthony Burgess