“Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.” WritingSeemsDifferencesMy OwnReaderEqualImportanceProse Author:Kevin Powers
“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.” IfsThinkingPersonsWholeReadingDifferencesPoetPersonalityReaderSitting Author:James Laughlin
“To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.” WritingLittlesBookDifferencesReaderAdultsTeensProtagonists Author:Charles de Lint
“There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.” GivingWritingRealRomanceReadingInterestDifferencesFictionFantasyMysteryParticularReaderHorrorScience FictionGenreCriticizeRealisticFlavorRealistic Fiction Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.” WritingChildrenBookDifferentStoriesCareCoursesSexDifferencesAttentionViolenceReaderAdultsExtremes Author:Michael Scott
“This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.” WayWellsBookDifferencesPowerfulReaderAccountsPermitGenocideBrutalityPolemics Author:John M Swomley
“I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.” PeopleThinkingWritingHumansDoeI CanFactsActionDifferencesDealsRaceFictionReaderBest ThingsHuman RaceGood Questions Author:Neil Gaiman
“I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.” MindMeanDoeEndsReasonWholeLightOrderFoundProcessDifferencesAttentionReaderExerciseLaborEmbraceIntuitionFulfillmentComplexityReasoningFacultyMeans To An EndArgumentation Book:The Ascent to Truth Source: The Ascent to Truth
“There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.” DifferencesReaderDescribingEvokeClinicals Author:Margaret Atwood
“Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.” IfsMightLanguageDifferencesReaderOriginalsInterpretationEfficiencyAmbiguityFiltersCultural Differences Author:Marjane Satrapi
“I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that time I had come across a critic called Kenneth Burke, who wrote a book called A Rhetoric of Motives, and it seemed to talk about another way, and gradually I realized that other way was that the reader made a difference.” WayWritingMadeBookDifferencesReaderCriticismCriticsI RealizedMotiveRhetoricAnother WayKenneth Author:Vito Acconci
“The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.” FactsStoriesDifferencesAcceptingMysteryWillingReaderDemandSolutionsFundamentalsGhostEffectivenessGhost Stories Author:Bennett Cerf
“I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... . Whether it's a politics page and you want Dan Balz to tell you what is he reading, what does he think are the smartest articles today on the elections or the primaries. So, I think aggregation is great ... . So I'm all for aggregation. And the more eyeballs we can get to our content, the better. We do want readers to be educated and to understand the difference between, what is a source that you can trust as opposed to just rumors out there. And the difference between just repurposing content and not crediting it.” ThinkingWantDoeTodayReadingDifferencesSourceReaderPagesSmartElectionEducatedPrimariesArticlesRumorEyeballs Author:Katharine Weymouth
“I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.” ThinkingWantSaidStuffDifferencesGoneReaderProjectsTendencies Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“It is always just telling a story, regardless of the age of the reader. Except, if I'm writing something for kids, I know there has to be hope. I don't necessarily feel that responsibility for adults, but I emphatically feel it for children. That's the only difference. There's no syntax difference. There's no semantics difference. There's no thematic difference.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingChildrenStoriesKidsAgeDifferencesResponsibilityReaderAdultsSyntaxSemanticsThematic Author:Kate DiCamillo
“I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.” ThinkingChildrenI CanDifferencesReaderPromiseNovelistsLifelong Author:Rick Riordan