“I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something to the person next to him, who repeats it not very distinctly to the next person, and so on until, by the time the last person hears it, it comes out completely transformed. Of course, as he explained to me, the meaning in Finnegans Wake is obscure because it is a 'nightpiece.' I think, too, that, like the author's sight, the work is often blurred.” ThinkingPersonsSaidSometimesLastsCoursesNextGamesReaderSightEnjoyedRepeatsTransformedObscureMisleadJoyceParlorFinnegans WakeParlor Games Author:Sylvia Beach
“I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.” WantGivingSometimesLastsFunHoursPleasureDealsReaderImpressionFascinatingDevotional Author:Frederick Buechner
“The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.” DoneStoriesLastsTurnsChallengesLaughingHugeReaderPagesSurpriseCornersMediumsShockPacePayoffSetupsMake Someone Laugh Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools that last beyond the classroom setting.” BookLastsReadingSupportStudentsBuildingReaderToolsSettingSettingsClassroomExposingReading Experience Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits
“If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.” IfsKnowsYearsPersonsWould BeLastsAmericaNamesMediaReaderJohn Kennedy Author:Joseph Sobran
“Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers' hearts long after they've turned the last page. ONLY IN MY DREAMS is pure Eve Byron, which means it's a pure delight. I fell in love with Lorelei and Dane, two of the most delightful characters I've encountered in a very long time. Byron's magical touch never falters. ONLY IN MY DREAMS is a surefire hit!” MenHeartMeanLongTwoCharacterDreamLastsThreeReaderPurePagesLong TimeMen And WomenDelightListsPermanentDelightfulByron Author:Barbara Bretton
“[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a bad comic strip. Such harshness is necessary for any real truth to surface, I think, and for art to really contribute anything to life. Though I don't know. I could be wrong.” IfsThinkingKnowsArtRealLastsPleasureModernHavensHonestyExampleIgnorancePaintingTheoryReaderBlameResponseSurfaceGenuineComicComic StripsHarshnessReal Truth Author:Chris Ware
“Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.” WayMindStoriesLastsGoalFictionReaderLast Words Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last word. We trust each other. We have our past working life in common, our recombined families, as well as our life as teachers, and we read much of the same literature and have similar esthetics, so there's a simpatico there. But we do disagree and that can be fruitful, even if it's not so great in the moment.” IfsFirstsWellsMomentsLastsPastLiteratureCommonTeacherOur LivesReaderHusbandMy HusbandDisagreeOur PastLast WordsWorking LifeSimpatico Author:Dorianne Laux
“For me, the favourite chapters have always been the last chapters in the books. I knew exactly how each book would end - and how the first chapter of the following book would begin. I knew I wanted to leave the readers with answers - and a bunch of new questions!” FirstsBookEndsWantedLastsAnswersReaderFollowingBunchFavouriteChapters Author:Michael Scott
“As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.” IfsThinkingKnowsBookLastsNamesFourReaderProud Author:Jay Neugeboren
“There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one author. It doesn't matter, if you can't make the reader dive into the story and surround him with that environment and those characters. That's an experience that lasts longer than figuring out who did what. I think that's what makes our working relationship better, it helps us to make a book that feels unique and not like different voices.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsBookDifferentMatterCharacterHelpingStoriesLastsArtistVoiceEnvironmentReaderUniqueSurroundDifferent Voices Author:Gabriel Ba
“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.” MindLastsAudienceReaderStandardsImaginaryTypewritersThings On My Mind Author:Don DeLillo
“I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm still pretty confused about what "plot" means. I've been reading some of my Goodreads reviews and one reader noted that the The Last Days of California "reads like a short story stretched to the breaking point, padded and brought into novel range..." I don't know what people want, really.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingMeanStillsStoriesLastsReadingNovelReaderHonestlyRangeCaliforniaConfusedPlotReviewsShort StoryLast DayGoodreadsPoint BreakWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Mary J. Miller
“I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindTodayAbleLastsReadingTermTalkingMediaInformationReaderProjectsVisualsThrownBarriersAbsorbingAccessibility Author:Nate Powell
“The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it and vested in it. So the emotional connection is everything, albeit a connection on my terms.” WantStoriesLastsLostTermEmotionalReaderConnectionsArtificeEmotional Connection Author:Steve Erickson