“Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'” BookLeftReaderEchoesAmbiguity Author:Mohsin Hamid
“You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.” IfsThinkingNeedsImportantBookForceWaitingRealizingPoetReaderImportanceEchoesPublishCliffsDropping Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.” StoriesBeliefStrongReaderEchoes Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.” SaidImportantFactsReaderMoodPsychologicalEchoesRepetitionAlterationsMotifs Author:Teju Cole
“In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.” IfsSeemsFilmAudiencePiecesReaderPagesSpeedChecksDialoguePaceEchoesFlip Author:Alan Moore