“We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.” DoeSpiritReadingEffortLearningReaderCuriosityDeterminedEncountersBetrayCompositionTransactionsForewarned Author:Paulo Freire
“One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.” AbleReadingEffortGreaterReaderActivityRangeProportion Author:Mortimer Adler
“Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.” LittlesStoriesEffortReader Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to serve a function, but it has no intrinsic value in and of itself. It's comfort food and nostalgia at best. On this, we follow what you and your fellow readers do more than what you say. We hear complaints about renumbering every time we do it, but every time we do it it results in higher sales, which is the whole ballgame - so if it were your time and your effort, what would you do?” IfsBookWholeValuesResultsNumbersEffortReaderHigherComfortWeightFunctionFellowsNostalgiaComicComic BookComplaintsPublicationSerialsReadershipIntrinsic ValueComfort FoodBallgame Author:Tom Brevoort
“Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader....Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come in, come in have a seat. I'm going to tell you what happened.' Perhaps my writing comes off as conversational...and that takes effort.” WritingSometimesCommunityEffortHappenedHuman NatureReaderIndividualitySeatsInvites Author:David Sedaris
“No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.” WritingEffortReaderNobleComing OutUnconditional Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.” WayWholeStoriesBigsMightHappensThreeRoomsEffortNovelCuttingMiddleMissingReaderCoupleEssentialsElementsConsequenceSurpriseFatsSuspenseChaptersUnfairCrapMomentumClumsyGeneralizationMiddle Way Author:Robert Reed
“The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder of the world and themselves that may be new to them or reveal something already familiar in new and enlightening ways.” WorldWayMindHeartMayChildrenMightYoungEffortWonderVisionKnowingReaderRewardsFamiliarHeart And MindEnlighteningWonder Of The World Author:Charles Ghigna
“Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course in intellectual self-defense," and to suggest ways to proceed; in other words, to help people undermine the dedicated efforts to "manufacture consent" and to turn them into passive objects rather than agents who control their own fate.” PeopleWaySelfHelpingMightPurposeTurnsCoursesEffortFateObjectsReaderIntellectualDefenseAgentsDedicatedPassiveConsentSelf Defense Author:Noam Chomsky
“If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.” IfsBookMightFormTurnsMy OwnNumbersEffortOpinionReaderIndependentIncludingCommittedReviewsDisappointing Author:Joyce Carol Oates