“It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.” CoursesModernFiguresReaderHolyTerrorExtremesCartoon Author:Frank Miller
“The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art” HumansArtBookBodyEyeTermWealthWrittenFiguresTypeReaderMajorsFemaleTrainWesternMalesProportionCategoriesSophisticatedRepresentationIntroductionEvaluateOutlinesImposingIllustrationBody Types Author:Camille Paglia
“There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of a book, cut the spine off, lay each page on a scanner, run that .tif through an OCR (Optical Character Reader), hand edit the resulting output for errors and then post it online if you don't love the book. it can up to 80 hours to turn a printed novel into an eBook. I figure if someone out there is willing to put in 80 hours of work promoting my book, then I'd prefer they do it in a way that gives a better return to me.” PeopleIfsWayGivingBookCharacterHandsRunningTurnsHoursNovelCuttingFiguresWillingReturnReaderPagesLaysErrorsPostsOnlineCopiesPromotingPrintedEditsSpineOutputReturn To Me Author:Cory Doctorow
“If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.” IfsWritingKindFiguresHairReaderNecksShock Author:Andrew Pyper
“I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.” StageFiguresReaderWarning Author:George Bernard Shaw
“I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsMadeBookNightReadingKnowingFansCryFiguresReaderCriticalTouchedReviewsMailAll NightUp All NightFan Mail Author:Jodi Picoult
“I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a questionnaire and they could figure out what I'm about. But I don't think my job is to tell you that.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingBookJobsFiguresReaderQuestionnaires Author:T.C. Boyle
“We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.” IfsGivingIdeasWholeEyeLeftFiguresExpressionReaderMouthsRedHorseShoesLipsEnormousTeethCombinationNosesMelancholyElephantsMixturesHere And ThereMaliceChinsBrowsAstonishmentHornyBreachFortressesWartsLeft Eye Book:The Novels of Victor Hugo: Profusely Illustrated with Elegant Wood Engravings Source: The Novels of Victor Hugo: Profusely Illustrated with Elegant Wood Engravings
“Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out what you mean.” TryingMeanUseRememberAttentionFiguresReaderValuableInstantValuable Time Author:John Caples
“I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.” PeopleWritingEnoughFiguresReaderIdealsLaborIntelligentLazy Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“Now, as a reader, you shouldn't feel the decisions the writer makes about this DNA, or it would be boring beyond belief. But, as a writer, you're struggling to make these decisions. What should the title be? What's the first line? The point of view? And the struggle with the decisions is because you're trying to figure out WHAT IS THE NOVEL, WHAT IS THE NOVEL?” FeelsShouldTryingFirstsWould BeBeliefLinesDecisionViewsNovelStruggleFiguresReaderBoringPoint Of ViewTitlesDna Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff
“There's a contract that I make between myself, the author, and the reader. I have to figure out how to give the reader certain powers of recognition, or his own knowledge, his own feelings, but I provide them, so we're working together.” GivingFeelingsTogetherCertainFiguresReaderRecognitionWorking TogetherContracts Author:Toni Morrison
“I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted a figure of a black woman that the reader has to confront.” BookWantedBeautifulBlackFiguresReaderBeautiful ThingsBlack WomenColorful Author:Morgan Parker
“The beginning [of Lincoln in the Bardo] is strange, and I did a lot of work calibrating that so that a reader with a certain level of patience would get through it and in the nick of time start to figure out what was going on. In a short book, you can do that.” BookCertainCan DoLevelsFiguresStrangeReader Author:George Saunders