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“I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over by the bottom of the first page. I take him to have meant that the real work comes in setting up the problem with which you are dealing, and thus getting your reader to take particular things for granted.”

Firsts Wells Real Done Philosophy Problem Particular Reader Pages Bottom Setting Settings Granted Strict Stereotype Austin Real Work

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots of readers - including eminent critics - jump to conclusions: that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is a central background text, that Aschenbach is an inferior writer, that he's never been attracted by pubescent male beauty before, that he dies of cholera.”

People Dies Masters Reader Birth Tragedy Critics Males Including Backgrounds Conclusion Irony Remarkable Inferiors Ambiguity Cholera Male Beauty

Author:Philip Kitcher

“I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities. If readers are to be prompted to serious examination of their lives, anatomy isn't enough. We have to be stimulated to imagine, in some detail, what it would be like to live in particular ways.”

Ifs Way Enough Would Be Imagine Possibility Particular Serious Reader Details Discussion Abstract Suspects Exploration Worthwhile Vivid Examination Presentation Anatomy

Author:Philip Kitcher

“I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony in particular parts of the novella, and to miss it in others.”

Thinking Facts Missing Particular Reader Irony Overlooked

Author:Philip Kitcher

“For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten "toptypsical" meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite.”

Important Three Courses Literature Term Fiction Perspective Reader Ten Score Definite Reminders Exaggeration Finnegans Wake

Author:Philip Kitcher

“For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.”

Long Film Reading Reader Long Time Theater

Author:Lisa Lucas

“I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.”

Want Writing My Own Novel Reader Ideals

Author:Steve Erickson

“specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.”

Long Form Fiction Novel Reader Casts

Author:Nathan Lowell

“I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.”

Ifs Wanted Known Reader

Author:Nathan Lowell

“I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.”

I Can Willing Reader Cruelty Relate Shock Arbitrary

Author:George Meyer

“I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it just came naturally.”

Enough Break Reader Organized Skeptic Organized Religion

Author:Amber Heard

“You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.”

Made Matter Behinds Fiction Reader Scene Made It Guise

Author:Rob Roberge

“Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader.”

Challenges Fronts Reader Pages Standing Naked

Author:Rob Roberge

“I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action.”

Persons Facts Stories Action Reader

Author:Rob Roberge

“One of the things I love most about second person is that it reminds the reader that they are reading a text. It doesn't allow them to drift into the story and not notice that they are reading a book - a book that has an author.”

Persons Book Stories Reading Reader Things I Love

Author:Rob Roberge

“I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.”

Sometimes Reader

Author:Rob Roberge

“I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.”

Stories Reader Casts Fantastic Spells Transport Short Love

Author:Nicholas Royle

“What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out.”

People Thinking World Wells Fire Reader Iraq Spread Lovely Fascinating Pubs Bangladesh Dublin Chaps

Author:John Gimlette

“I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.”

Art Said I Can Book Artist Deals Pieces Reader Function Intention Confusing Speculation Prologue

Author:Laura Mullen

“Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)”

“First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read Hap and Leonard, but a large percentage are crossover readers. And yes, I did refuse to go to Vietnam and it looked like prison was in my future, but they sent me to the psychiatrist and he gave me a 1-Y, which is unfit for military service essentially.”

Firsts Stuff Military Reader Prison Refuse Vietnam Percentages Psychiatrist My Future Military Service Crossover

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the historicals, however, but if that's all I did I would go crazy, same with any of the other kinds of books. I need variety.”

Ifs Needs Writing Kind Book Crazy Reader Wide Mood Variety Mood Changes

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be a gadfly, but I do think that real ideas are troublesome. There should be something about my work that leaves the reader unsettled. I intend that.”

People Thinking Feels Should Trying Ideas Real Example Reader Convenient Troublesome Gadflies

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are.”

Thinking Want Kind Book Reading Novel Reader Expectations Historical Contemporary Traditional Historical Novels Reading Experience

Author:Danielle Dutton

“We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.”

Firsts Interest Reader Lucky Rounds Come Up Excited

Author:Alexis Ohanian

“You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.”

Helping Hours Reader Printed

Author:Francoise Mouly

“It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.”

Ifs Knows Hard Reader

Author:Louis Menand

“One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but one of the functions of that is basically the sort of Consumer Reports function of letting readers know whether this is something they want to read.”

Knows Want Literature Reader Criticism Function Consumers Reports Reviews Literary Criticism

Author:Louis Menand

“If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a lot of New Yorker readers are kind of, you know, amateur grammarians and so you do get a lot of that.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Kind Reader Grammar New Yorkers

Author:Louis Menand

“I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online.”

Thinking Way Ends Done Whole Hands Technology Pieces Century Design Reader Internet Projects Solutions Customers Designer Online 20th Century Equations Posters Internet Technology Brochures

Author:Khoi Vinh

“There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.”

Sometimes Students Poet Reader Great Poet Distressing

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you." All great poets have been great readers and the way to learn your craft in poetry is by reading other poetry and by letting it guide you.”

Way Firsts Has Beens Might Reading Impossible Poet Reader Guides Crafts Poetry Is Odds Great Poet

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.”

People Ifs Needs Would Be Reader Program Committed Poetry Is

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA programs in which a young poet goes through the program, publishes a series of books, gets teaching jobs, that's a bit at risk.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

“The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader and that meaning doesn't exist or in here in poems alone.”

Needs Kind Ideas Poet Reader Poetry Is Need You Circuits

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.”

Poet Reader Insight Range Negotiation

Author:Edward Hirsch

“As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.”

Reader Tasks

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.”

Mean Ideas Reader Messages Bottles Message In A Bottle

Author:Edward Hirsch

“When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.”

Reading Left Felt Secret Reader Left Out Reading Poetry

Author:Edward Hirsch

“My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader. And so, as a reader you have a task to do in finding those bottles and opening up the messages and experiencing what's in them inside of yourself.”

Jobs Focus Inspire Poet Reader Findings Messages Tasks Opening Bottles Opening Up

Author:Edward Hirsch

“There's a huge and hungry market for the books on style and fashion in Russia, though the books should be done in Russian, not English since there are few readers who've master foreign languages well enough to buy foreign editions.”

Should Wells Book Done Enough Language Fashion Style Masters Huge Reader Russia Hungry Foreign Language Fashion And Style

Author:Alexander Vassiliev

“You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a writer. That's what I do. I want it to be written. I want it to work on the page first and foremost. So when I'm writing the script, I'm not thinking about the viewer watching the movie. I'm thinking about the reader reading the script.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot.”

Needs Film Given Imagination Accepting Reader Awful Engaged

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.”

Ifs Giving Writing Long Stories Games Reader Smell Description Songwriting Publishers Thumbs Nausea

Author:Dean Koontz

“Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life.”

Values Reader Add Marketing Insightful Blogging Digital Marketing Marketing Strategy Content Marketing Great Marketing Advertising And Marketing Business Marketing Marketing Plans Web Content

Author:Avinash Kaushik

“Through Heaven's Gate and Back speaks to all of us that have been abused as children. Lee Thornton's descriptions of the aftereffects of repeated trauma and a profound Near-Death Experience (NDE) are not only true but explained in a way that the reader can take in. It is rare to find a book so well written that it has both sexual abuse and an NDE under one cover. We definitely will be recommending this book to our patients.”

Way Wells Children Has Beens Book Speak Heaven Written Reader Abuse Profound Patient Trauma Description Gates Well Written Near Death Near Death Experience

Author:Charles L. Whitfield

“You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do.”

People Thinking Want Firsts Light Might Asks Enjoy Rooms Party Reader Surprise Trusted Colleagues Living Room Blinding Light Surprise Party

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Source: The Writing Class

“Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.”

Life Doe Book Desire Certain Names United Inspire Reader Discourse Familiarity Begets

Author:Petrarch

“The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.”

Want Trying Firsts Humans Causes Human Beings Reader Block Writer's Block

Author:Karen Karbo

“I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest furiously French kissing when I was in seventh grade. I walked in, saw it, and went, "No way," backed out, composed myself, and went back in, and it was still going on. And the experience of seeing that was actually very deep.”

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Author:George Saunders

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