“The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.” WayShouldBookDifferentIndividualNovelCreativeReaderFinishedDifferent WaysInvitesLife ExperienceIndividual Life Author:Alan Lightman
“Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.” IfsWayDifferentReadingChanceAnswersFictionReaderOffersDifferent WaysParanormalWhat IfEntertaining Author:Jeaniene Frost
“Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.” WayDifferentSometimesHappensReadingIndividualPiecesReaderDifferent Ways Author:Margaret Atwood
“The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.” WayDoeSaidDifferentFactsLanguageTakenRecordsReaderPhotographyPhotographSentencesMake SenseDifferent WaysVisibleListenersPropositionsSequenceDeprivedOf ContextBefore And After Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.” IfsKnowsWorldWayWritingBookDifferentThis WorldReaderCreatingMassCriticalObjectivesDifferent WaysBetter PlaceCritical Mass Author:Paulo Coelho
“I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.” WayBelieveDifferentCharacterReaderDifferent WaysMotive Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.” WayDifferentBigsWantedHouseFeltSeeingReaderDifferent WaysHaunted Houses Author:Benjamin Percy
“Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.” WayBookDifferentReaderDifferent Ways Author:Alan Lightman
“As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many different ways, whether or not it made this list or got that review, etc. I'm sure some of that thinking has been useful to me as a writer as well.” ThinkingWayTryingWellsLongHas BeensMadeBookDifferentHelpingReaderListsDifferent WaysEtcReviewsPublishersLong Life Author:Danielle Dutton
“Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?” IfsThinkingWorldWayBookDifferentUsedExistenceResponsibilityMoralAudienceReaderPicksShameDifferent WaysRealmsLazyMoral Responsibility Author:Kevin Keck
“Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at others in a different way. This goes way beyond just making statements or manifesting principles.” WayLooksMayDifferentLiteraturePrinciplesReaderStatementsDifferent WaysManifestConventions Author:Amos Oz