Best reader & listeners Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.”

Kind Use Force Powerful Attention Consciousness Modern Fields Reader Areas All Kinds Operations Enterprise Listeners Viewers Staging Overloaded

Author:Saul Bellow

“The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.”

Heart Force Felt Reader Musical Clarity Passages Listeners

Book:Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

“Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.”

“My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”

Should Eye Reader Ears Judged Listeners

Author:Arnold Schoenberg

“To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on the blackboard may be inaccessible and uninstructive, if the purpose of the successive steps is incomprehensible, if the reader or listener cannot understand how it was humanly possible to find such an argument....”

Ifs Writing May Book Purpose Speak Steps Reader Argument Sufficient Listeners Inaccessible Blackboard

Author:George Polya

“To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No farfetched or obscure statement will stop them. You have got to hit them where they live in the heart or in the head. You have got to catch their eyes or ears with something simple, something direct, something they want.”

Want Mind Heart Eye Language Simple Reader Offers Direct Ears Statements Listeners Impress Obscure

Author:John Caples

“A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.”

Way Mean Children Stories Literature Loses Imagination Alive Growing Reader Unique Dancing Tales Encounters Listeners Good Story Lively Arrivals Spirited Children's Literature

Author:Katherine Paterson

“The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter of being coy, or withholding information. It's allowing for multiple possibilities, recognizing the complexity of human behavior, and making the world of a piece of fiction as marvelously confounding as the world we live in.”

“I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Important Chance Reader Listeners

Author:Ian Frazier

“Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.”

Form Company Media Reader Cost Activity Foundation Rely Fund Grants Users Listeners Viewers Fees Donation

Author:Robert G. Picard

“Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.”

“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.”

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking to these people; I enjoy sort of preening them a bit. But it's a matter of decorum, basically.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Matter Bits Enjoy Talking Example Reader Listeners Lectures Decorum

Author:William H. Gass

“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.”

Written Heard Produce Reader Excuse Profession Listeners Idleness

Book:Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny

Source: Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny

“I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.”

Thinking Knows Writing Turns Reader Mirrors Listeners Viewers

Author:Claudia Rankine

“If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.”

People Ifs Knows Evil Records Reader Good Things Be Good Thoughtful Wicked Good People Listeners Godly

Author:Venerable Bede

“[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.”

Knows Has Beens Art Feelings Action Communication Reader Recognition Shock Listeners Viewers

Author:Walker Percy

“Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.”

Artist Talent Reader Lips Agents Disguise Listeners Disruption Trainers Assassins Sabotage Watchers Subversion Smugglers

Author:John le Carre

“I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the reader can insert themselves into it, and there is a certain kind of architectural space which is totalitarian, which does not allow you to do that.”

Thinking Kind Doe Art Certain Literature Space Reader Void Listeners Viewers Spectators Insert

Author:Jonathan Meades

“Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.”

People Want Important Stuff Share Reader Mets Make Sense Discovering Listeners

Author:Faris Badwan

“I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.”

Knows Way Two Stories Use Happens Next Attention Novel Reader Involved Method Technique Two Things Listeners Restriction Vary

Author:William Golding

“The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.”

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Author:Kate Tempest

“Print works! It works as a business proposition - our print readers [of the Mother Jones] not only provide revenue in the form of subs and ads, but they are a core part of our donor community; 10 percent give us a donation on top of their subscription; that's about the same rate as NPR gets from its listeners.”

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Author:Clara Jeffery

“I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows or forces me to bring something that's supremely me onto the page. I used to think that the speaker of a poem was talking to someone else, to some ideal reader or listener, but now I think that speakers - poets - are talking to themselves. The poem allows you to pose questions that you have you ask of yourself knowing that they are unanswerable.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Used Asks Force Talking Knowing Poet Reader Pages Ideals Investment Speakers Listeners Talking To Someone

Author:Tracy K. Smith

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