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“Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as the author can be, it's usually only a reflection of what the reader can interpret, and based on their own personal experiences.”

Thinking Feels Sometimes Reader Reflection Poetry Is Transparent Personal Experiences

Author:Masiela Lusha

“I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for me, it's actually very painfully transparent what I've written. Sometimes very literal, which is scary.”

Sometimes Enough Stories Felt Written Reader Scary Vague Transparent Literal

Author:Masiela Lusha

“Especially with a magazine like Lampoon, which was very dependent on newsstand sales. Our readers didn't usually occupy the same address long enough to get a subscription, because they were in college, or they were hippies. So it was very up-and-down, and we had to calculate how many to print, which was always sort of a headache from a business point of view.”

Long Enough Views College Reader Down And Point Of View Magazines Addresses Dependent Print Up And Down Hippie Headache Subscription

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reagan, and they were going, "Gosh! We need a Republican! Does anybody know a Republican? Wait a minute! I think P.J.'s a Republican!"”

Thinking Knows Needs Doe Waiting Middle Minutes Reader Republican Happenings Stones Rolling 80s Rolling Stones

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a précis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make everything right.”

Writing Trying Book Bigs Government Happens Political Dog Reader Copies Impressed Political Science Hayek Road To Serfdom Friedrich Hayek

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.”

Want Writing Two Stories Remember Hours Lines Reader Bills Agents Posts Our Family Online Wrestling Journal

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.”

Knows Stills Reader Quiet Asking Islands Stillness Offering Oasis Vertical

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.”

Book Levels Reader Thousand Pages Deeper Compliment One Thousand Gifts

Author:Ann Voskamp

“That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.”

Want Book Jobs Reader Be Confident

Author:Patrick Ness

“You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.”

Ifs Writing Wells May Might Pay Wonderful Style Reader Presses Meaningful Appeals Fascinating Intricate

Author:Alice Mattison

“Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.”

Millions Reader Originals Zero Ceilings

Author:Paul S. Kemp

“I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!”

I Can Events Reader Meetings

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I'm a really eclectic reader.”

Reader Eclectic

Author:Alice Hoffman

“The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!”

People Thinking Mind Ends Courses Views Reader Saving Score Expansion Distortion Caricatures Calvinism

Author:Oliver D. Crisp

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection, and has been for some years now. Sales haven't ever stopped, so to talk about rediscovering him would suggest that he isn't read anymore and that's not true.”

Years Has Beens Havens Reader Highest Selling Collections Abandoned

Author:Catherine Camus

“The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.”

Children One Thing Reader My Children

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.”

Children Church Reader Starting Baptists Avid

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.”

Want Easy Seeing Reader Connections Distraction

Author:Neal Stephenson

“What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary or other kinds of fiction do. The name of the game in F/SF/HF is creating fictional worlds and then telling particular stories set in those worlds. If you're doing it right, then the reader, coming to the end of the story, will say, "Hey, wait a minute, there are so many other stories that could be told in this universe!" And that's how we get the sprawling, coherent fictional universes that fandom is all about.”

“I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and early 70s. Maybe poets did, but for me as an onlooker and reader of poetry, poetry felt like it was part of a larger literary world. I mean, even the phrase "the poetry world" reflects a sort of balkanization of American literary and artistic life that has to some extent happened since then.”

Knows World Mean Felt Happened Poet Reader Artistic Phrases 1960s Artistic Life

Author:Robert Hass

“It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but we really have no way of knowing, in terms of relative size of audience and other things, exactly who readers were.”

Way Years Book Seems Used Term Audience Knowing Reader Ten Size Used To Be Relative

Author:Robert Hass

“I hope to offend every reader.”

Reader

Author:Milo Yiannopoulos

“I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.”

Way Want Looks Different Ends Asks Cutting Happened Perspective Reader Down And Clean Slips Chapters Bleeding Different Perspective Sly Stilettos

Author:Kathryn Harrison

“Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.”

Ifs Needs Character White Race Reader Assuming Defined

Author:Roxane Gay

“I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care either. Which is why every time somebody cares enough to read a novel of mine, or respond to it - a reader, a reviewer, even my own editor - I'm a little bit amazed, and so hugely grateful.”

Writing Littles Ideas Enough Care Bits My Own Novel Written Mines Reader Little Bit Grateful Editors Amazed Publish Reviewers

Author:Lauren Grodstein

“I didn't want to give the white reader an opportunity to think of racism as imaginary - a sentiment that is already a central barrier in addressing the problem.”

Thinking Want Giving Problem Opportunity White Reader Racism Barriers Sentiments Imaginary

Author:Vivek Shraya

“Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.”

Children Book Age Audience Possibility Reader Genuine Children's Books New Possibilities

Author:Vivek Shraya

“Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course in intellectual self-defense," and to suggest ways to proceed; in other words, to help people undermine the dedicated efforts to "manufacture consent" and to turn them into passive objects rather than agents who control their own fate.”

People Way Self Helping Might Purpose Turns Courses Effort Fate Objects Reader Intellectual Defense Agents Dedicated Passive Consent Self Defense

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.”

Havens Reader British Odd Clue Hunches

Author:Seamus Heaney

“Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.”

Ifs Way Reader Finished

Author:Seamus Heaney

“Print works! It works as a business proposition - our print readers [of the Mother Jones] not only provide revenue in the form of subs and ads, but they are a core part of our donor community; 10 percent give us a donation on top of their subscription; that's about the same rate as NPR gets from its listeners.”

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Author:Clara Jeffery

“The biggest challenge I think every publisher is facing is how do we get readers to pay for content? So we're constantly testing, trying new things.”

Thinking Trying Challenges Pay Reader New Things Publishers Testing Trying New Things

Author:Maria Rodale

“Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).”

Thinking Book Ends Growth Movement Depends Reader Sustainability Users

Author:Tom Peters

“Since I started as a comic person then became a musician to me it was interesting because I have this really great, interesting fanbase that's really smart and energetic and uh how could I steer them towards a medium that shaped who I was? You know, steer them toward comics. That was really the goal, to bring a lot of readers cuz they were reading a lot of comics but most of them hadn't been reading American comics, they'd be reading manga sitting on the floor of a Barnes and Noble.”

Knows Persons Reading Goal Interesting Reader Musician Smart Sitting Noble Mediums Comic Really Great Energetic Steers Cuz Really Smart

Author:Gerard Way

“As a reader, I do not like to have everything handed to me. Because after a while it gets formulaic and I'm thinking, "If this is so thought through, then why do I need to read it. It's done!" It becomes a beach book at a certain point.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Book Done Certain Reader Beach

Author:John Edgar Wideman

“When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be happy with." But another part of me knows that when I'm past the stage of writing, the book is gonna have good things about it, bad things about it - probably more bad than good. I just know that. That's who I am.”

Thinking Knows Writing Wells Book Might Past Stage Reader Good Things Who I Am Bad Things Always Be Happy

Author:John Edgar Wideman

“I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.”

Knows Want Whole Feelings Reader Whole Truth

Author:John Edgar Wideman

“I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.”

Reader Economics Faithful Documents

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references are a hindrance. This seems obvious. I don't decry it or criticize it - it's just a fact.”

Facts Use Seems Language Community Reader International Obvious Locals Criticize Dense International Community Hindrance

Author:Tim Parks

“I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.”

Thinking Book Bigs Reading Next Knowing Trouble Reader Boxes Comic Comic Book Sequence Book Readers

Author:Tim Burton

“I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all tell me that you were busy reading Plato and [Lev] Tolstoy and playing violin in the orchestra, I'd say that was great. I wouldn't tell you to take time out from that to get involved in political journalism.”

Ifs Political Reading Reader Involved Standards Busy Journalism Take Time Plato Orchestra Get Involved Violin Lev Tolstoy

Author:William Kristol

“I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.”

Ifs Bigs Reader Desert Islands Dislike Austen Eliot

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.”

Thinking Way Firsts Kind Language Reader Twenties Formal

Author:Junot Diaz

“An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.”

Knows Use Bigs Language Reader Ears

Author:Junot Diaz

“I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.”

Thinking Want Powerful Behinds Changed Reader Paint Careful Access Very Powerful Magnet Reciprocal Plasters

Author:William Gibson

“[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.”

Kids Film Reading Player Reader Treats Sells Productions I Realized Magazines Features Coming Out Premieres Film Production

Author:William Gibson

“Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.”

Ifs Way Two Hours Lines Doors Reader Bills Work Out Backgrounds Agents Posts Unexpected Publishing Get Over Proposal

Author:Ann Voskamp

“I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.”

“I believe that any attempt on the part of a libertarian communist society to abridge the rights of a community - for example, to operate on the basis of a market economy of the kind that you describe - would be unforgivable, and I would oppose the practices of such a society as militantly as I think any reader of your publication would.”

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Author:Murray Bookchin

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