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“When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.”

Character Reader Gay Assumption Irrelevant

Author:Carol Anshaw

“Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency”

Knows Persons Book Shows Culture Common Known Knowledge Reader Assuming Newspapers Assumption Remarkable Consistency Identical

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.”

Book Reading Process Sleep Half Struggle Reader Exercise Highest Assumption

Book:Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed

Source: Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed

“Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.”

“If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.”

Ifs May Book Certain Reader Critics Assumption

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect you to be funny, and if you're not, they notice. Whereas if you read a regular op-ed about Israel or the family or medicine, you're not starting with the assumption that you're supposed to laugh.”

Ifs Audience Laughing Comedy Reader Medicine Starting Clubs Israel Assumption Stand Up Comedy Comedy Clubs

Author:Dave Barry

“A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.”

Wells Different Common Poet Reader Assumption Orthodoxy

Author:Seamus Heaney