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“I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.”

Thinking Felt Emotion Reader Function Peculiar Vibrations Transmit Corresponding

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.”

Thinking Writing Persons Perfect Reader And Love

Author:Anne Sexton

“With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.”

Years Generations Reader Passages Kitsch Pathos Sublimity Infatuated

Author:Peter Gay

“The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.”

“Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections”

Stories Would Be Reader Collections Short Story

Author:L.P. Hartley

“Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers”

Knows Ends Facts Stories Order Found Written Worst Style Reader Chaos Determined Recognition Insanity Urgency Implied Beneficiaries

Author:Richard Ford

“Writers are voracious readers. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me. Everything was fair game, from Louisa May Alcott to my older cousin's True Romance Magazines, from Lewis Carroll to the backs of cereal boxes. All of this fed me, but it took certain books to make me grow. I don't want to work without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.”

World Want May Book Eye Romance Certain Passion Games Grows Mystery Reader Drama Fairs Boxes Magazines Feds Multitudes Stopping Cousin Connecting Alphabet Cereal Fair Game True Romance

Author:Gloria Naylor

“It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.”

Writing Kind Doe Art Might Challenges Reader Boundaries Pushing Surprising

Author:Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

“I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.”

Thinking Way Film Fiction Imagine Reader Imagine That Screenwriters Fiction Writers Cinematic Watchers

Author:Miranda July

“The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.”

Moments Levels Reader Boring Filmmaking Viewers Noticing Boring Things

Author:Miranda July

“It never seems to occur to anyone that each reader is different, and that even those who might be said to resemble each other will each bring an individual set of experiences and references to their reading, and interpret and misinterpret it according to these.”

Said Different Seems Might Reading Individual Reader

Book:Selected Prose

Source: Selected Prose

“Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.”

Thinking Character Shows Reader

Author:George V. Higgins

“Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.”

Needs Writing Stories Reader Suits Shirts

Author:Jane Yolen

“The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.”

Mind Reader Projects Spending Budgets Things To Do Los Angeles Occupation Senate Fewer Salary Virginia Coalitions Pork Chaplains Wasteful Spending

Author:Argus Hamilton

“I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.”

Wells Book Use Honest Reader Coffee Newspapers Cups Being Honest Digital Coffee Cup Kindles Sony

Author:Chad Hurley

“And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.”

Believe Wells Two Soul Certain Enjoy Answers Opinion Reader Equal Harmony Tunes

Author:Izaak Walton

“Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.”

Way Should Reader Survival Discomfort

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.”

Doe Art Self Reality Artist Values Universe Novel Creation Reader Art Is Perceive Judgement Tolerate Metaphysical Statues Symphony Commentary Aloof Self Contained Beckoning

Author:Leonard Peikoff

“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”

Writing Literature Influence Reader Bottom Individuality Preacher Auditors

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.”

Self Whole Feelings Secret Reader True Self Fascination Enchantment

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.”

People Ifs Knows Evil Records Reader Good Things Be Good Thoughtful Wicked Good People Listeners Godly

Author:Venerable Bede

“A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.”

Able Lying Reader Historian

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.”

Character Fiction Reader Granted Scenery

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Regular readers will know I'm a fan of (Cristiano) Ronaldo, and an even bigger fan of the man who's assumed his mantle with quite astonishing success, Wayne Rooney. But Messi is on a higher plain than even that pair.”

Knows Men Fans He Man Reader Higher Bigger Pairs Astonishing Wayne Messi Cristiano Ronaldo Rooney

Author:Andy Cole

“People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.”

People Reader Excellent Knowledgeable

Author:Bill Gates

“A leader is a reader.”

Leader Reader

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people will make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us. If they are wise, they will be great and happy. If they are of a contrary character, they will be miserable. Righteousness alone can exalt them as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this: and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, an encourage it in others.”

People Ifs Art Character Use Remember Nations Practice Virtue Wise Depends Reader Blessing Prove Contrary Miserable Curse Righteousness Spheres Thyself Gracious

Author:Patrick Henry

“Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.”

Made Two Character Care Reader Plot Intriguing Good Character

Author:Bob Mayer

“[The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect.”

Would Be Nations Causes Fate Effects Events Changed Reader Pages Glory Impression Rome Exhausted Repetition Hostility Persia

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“We always for better or worse try to put on paper what's going up on screen - whether we're directing it or not. It's really just an extension of that habit which is trying to tell the reader what the movie will look like. Ultimately that is the job of a screenwriter to a certain extent.”

Trying Looks Jobs Certain Reader Habit Paper Screens Extensions Screenwriters

Author:John Francis Daley

“While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they care about better with each story.”

People Knows Trying Character Stories Care Information Reader Add Casts New Information

Author:Jane Cleland

“While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.”

Want Trying Reader Details Boring New Things Skip Dump Enticing Learning New Learning New Things

Author:Jane Cleland

“What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”

Said Poet Reader Validity Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:W. H. Auden

“Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.”

Should Book Enough Reader Life Happiness

Author:Dorothy Parker

“If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.”

Ifs Talking Reader Talking To Yourself

Author:Nigel Hamilton

“[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.”

Knows Has Beens Art Feelings Action Communication Reader Recognition Shock Listeners Viewers

Author:Walker Percy

“But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.”

Knows Giving Certain Given Reader

Author:Wallace Shawn

“I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.”

Ifs Way Needs Writing Years Player Written Reader Fairs Accused

Author:Peter King

“I shall live forever. And I don't mean in a metaphorical sense. I don't mean I'll live forever in the hearts and minds of my readers. I mean I will literally live forever, drawing as I do from your pain and suffering.Your pain makes me strong.”

Mind Heart Mean Pain Suffering Strong Forever Reader Drawing Heart And Mind Live Forever Pain And Suffering Metaphorical Make Me Strong

Author:Derek Landy

“We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.”

Has Beens Realizing Our Lives Reader Enormous

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.”

Fiction Reader

Book:Conversations with Philip Roth

Source: Conversations with Philip Roth

“You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.”

People Character Three Reader

Book:Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint

Source: Write Great Fiction - Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint

“Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.”

Attention Reader Lows Tolerance Boredom Grades Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:Judith Viorst

“Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.”

Grows Tree Reader Print

Author:Jim Trelease

“You've got to be a good date for the reader.”

Reader

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable”

Reader Valuable

Author:S. R. Ranganathan

“Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.”

Book Self Reader Conscious Suits Display Spoil Self Conscious Joyce

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'”

Imagine Changed Reader Come Up Up To You Changed My Life You Changed

Author:Richard Dawkins

“With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.”

People Fun Talking Reader Becoming Objectives Fringe People Talking Avid

Author:John Noble

“I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I've read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I'm not a big reader.”

Book Home Bigs Law Mines Reader Hero Attraction Law Of Attraction Muhammad Big Book

Author:Conor McGregor

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