Best reader & alive Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.”

Needs Firsts Book Language Lines Levels Alive Reader Pages Finals

Author:Ali Smith

“Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.”

Book Real Character Alive Reader Direct Connections Dialogue

Author:Laini Taylor

“The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.”

Needs Mind Book Consciousness Known Alive Reader

Book:Strange Bodies

Source: Strange Bodies

“The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to communicate their presence to my readers.”

World Heart Whole Past Alive Reader My Heart Communicate Whole World

Book:A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

Source: A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

“A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.”

Way Mean Children Stories Literature Loses Imagination Alive Growing Reader Unique Dancing Tales Encounters Listeners Good Story Lively Arrivals Spirited Children's Literature

Author:Katherine Paterson

“Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Seems Left Five Alive Reader First Time Appearance Five Years Publish Annuals Proust Posthumous

Author:Janet Flanner

“The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive.”

Mean Art Emotion Alive Reader Intellect Division Public Life Love Poems Swimmer

Author:Jesse Lee Kercheval

“Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent it out into the world. A couple of months after publication letters from readers might arrive. And, leaving aside the professional reviews, it is really the reader's opinions that the writer needs. They vote for a book - and a writer - with their hard earned cash every time they go into a bookstore (or online - that's my age showing!) and buy a book.”

World Needs Book Hard Stories Might Age Opinion Alive Months Reader Couple Paper Letters Vote Leaving Online Reviews Cash Publication Bookstores Words On Paper

Author:Michael Scott

“Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.”

Book Imagination Alive Reader Passionate

Author:Julia Alvarez

“To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings?”

People Humans Persons Has Beens Book Reading Human Beings Attention Alive Reader

Author:David McCullough

“To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Hard America Moving Grows Struggle Alive Taught Reader Appreciate

Author:Alice Walker

“A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.”

People Ifs Literature Responsibility Alive Reader Wander Awake

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control. . . . Good writing . . . explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.”

Should Writing Beautiful Faces Three Morning Five Four Alive Reader Clock Reckless Good Writing

Author:Joy Williams

“I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire to make the story narrated in a book or an aspect of that story come alive in a game.”

Has Beens Book Play Stories Desire Games Felt Alive Youth Reader Aspect Avid

Author:Klaus Teuber

“I'd like to think that what my style of writing is, is an attempt not so much to judge the characters that I'm writing about, to expose them, to label them, to stereotype them, but instead to make them come alive for the reader with all their strengths and their flaws intact.”

Thinking Writing Character Alive Style Judging Reader Labels Flaws Stereotype

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

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