Best reader & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.”

Needs Firsts Book Language Lines Levels Alive Reader Pages Finals

Author:Ali Smith

“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.”

Needs Should Attention Too Much Reader Neighbor

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.”

Knows Needs Looks Matter Numbers Know How Minutes Information Source Reader Authority

Author:David Gelernter

“The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.”

Needs Mind Book Consciousness Known Alive Reader

Book:Strange Bodies

Source: Strange Bodies

“I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.”

Want Needs Helping Bigs Song Stuff Reader Emptiness Help Me Bookstores

Author:Nas

“Study your reader first - your product second. If you understand his reactions, and present those phases of your product that relate to his needs, then you cannot help but write a good letter.”

Ifs Needs Writing Firsts Helping Study Products Reader Letters Reactions Relate Phases

Book:Robert Collier Copywriting Course - Masters of Marketing Secrets: Learn to Write Sales Letters That Pay

Source: Robert Collier Copywriting Course - Masters of Marketing Secrets: Learn to Write Sales Letters That Pay

“Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Giving Feels Heart Book Stories Moving Greater Written Seeing Reader Empathy Capacity Insightful Inches Revealing Darren Justine

Author:Nick Earls

“The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.”

Knows Needs Stills Book Problem Reader Cooking Like Me Cooks Explanation Riddle Skip Cookery

Author:Julia Child

“Thoughts for Young Men abounds in reliable counsel and says - with a rare combination of seriousness and graciousness - the very things we need to hear. Young men, for whom it was written, will find it invaluable; but all Christians, men or women, young or old, can read it with lasting benefit. It deserves to be widely read and circulated, and will do spiritual good to every reader.”

Men Needs Christian Spiritual Young Written Reader Benefits Deserve Combination Young Man Lasting Seriousness Invaluable Graciousness

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.”

“Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.”

Needs Stories Lines Reader Between The Lines Contemporary Life

Author:Karen Kingsbury

“I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.”

Thinking Needs Film Term Reader Subtle Mary Implications

Author:P. L. Travers

“Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.”

Knows Needs Kind Play Character Names Attitude Roles Reader Costumes

Author:Kurt Busiek

“Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.”

Knows Needs Writing Kind Running Seeing Perspective Reader Details Screens Visuals Credibility Good Writing

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.”

Needs Book Real Enough Stories Students Reader Skills Cards Flash Sheets Flavor Real Story

Author:Jim Trelease

“Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.”

Way Want Needs Littles Reason Remember Literature Voice Rooms Talking Reader Citizens Please Absolutes Sacred Privileged Arena Secrecy Unimportant Absolute Freedom Goodman

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”

Needs Moments Past Memories Conditions Events Particular Personality Reader Elements Response Determine Mood Combination Traits Preoccupation Personality Traits Past Events

Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

“On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.”

Needs Wells Done Cases Reader Notes Cancer Cards Beloved Damn Breasts Outstanding Breast Cancer Get Well Mammograms

Author:Molly Ivins

“Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent it out into the world. A couple of months after publication letters from readers might arrive. And, leaving aside the professional reviews, it is really the reader's opinions that the writer needs. They vote for a book - and a writer - with their hard earned cash every time they go into a bookstore (or online - that's my age showing!) and buy a book.”

World Needs Book Hard Stories Might Age Opinion Alive Months Reader Couple Paper Letters Vote Leaving Online Reviews Cash Publication Bookstores Words On Paper

Author:Michael Scott

“To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Reader Editors Good Writers

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know the where all that dragon food comes from, but that doesn't mean that I, as a reader, want to read a five thousand word essay about you explaining it to me. I don't need to see the math, but I can tell by the details you provide whether or not you've thought these things through to their logical conclusions.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read it. I love that they're willing to let me go wherever I need to go as an author, and they're happy to come along for the ride as the reader.”

Want Needs Willing Type Reader Let Me Following Lists Loyal Devoted Groceries Let Me Go Along For The Ride Grocery Lists

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.”

“All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!”

Men Needs Feels Book Able Reader Elements Comfortable Percent Discussing Procreation

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.”

Knows Needs Giving Trying Persons Loses Lines Attention Reader Six Research Tools Journalism Journalist Interviews

Author:Isabel Allende

“I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.”

Thinking Needs Reading Reader Distraction Invites

Author:David Starkey

“I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.”

“You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders.”

Needs Writing Stories Care Desire Passion Attention Reader Overwhelming Sincerity Pretender Overwhelming Desire

Author:Sefi Atta

“I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.”

People Needs Giving Should Real Reason Play Use Shows Success Reading Business Technology Reader Internet Happenings Video Hanging Out Weekend Being Real Blogs Headlines Clicks Sensational

Author:Fred Wilson

“When interviewers ask me who I'm sleeping with or if I don't like such-and-such or what is my sexuality, that's not beneficial to the world. They need to ask me about stuff that may help readers, like how my father abused my mother for many years. A lot of kids go through that and need to know what they should do.”

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Author:Missy Elliot

“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.”

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Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.”

Thinking Needs Writing Sometimes Form Certain Realizing Lines Reader Musical Score Resolution

Author:Nicole Krauss

“We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.”

Needs Feels Book Different Stories Hands Answers Reader Degrees Satisfaction Arise

Author:Amy Tan

“If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.”

Ifs Needs Hard Work Reader Harder Puzzles Work Harder Unfamiliar Ambiguous

Author:Crawford Kilian

“A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader's mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds!”

Men Needs Mind Beautiful Force Powerful Wind Reader Spring Branches Spring Inspirational

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.”

Needs Writing Stories Reader Suits Shirts

Author:Jane Yolen

“I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.”

Ifs Way Needs Writing Years Player Written Reader Fairs Accused

Author:Peter King

“When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.”

Needs Feels Book Love Is Reader Irony Romantic Love

Author:Charles Baxter

“Mirror the reader to himself and then show him afterward how your product fits his needs.”

Needs Shows Products Reader Fit Mirrors

Author:Raymond Rubicam

“Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.”

Needs Character Able Reader Roots Flawed Main Characters Likeable

Author:Janet Evanovich

“There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all we care about is language. At least in the initial stages of the process of writing the poem, though later other things start to come in, and a really good poem usually needs something more than just an interest in the material of language to mean anything to a reader.”

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Author:Matthew Zapruder

“I don't think we need a critic to negotiate with the audience. People say, "Who are you writing for?" I'm writing for myself but my audience is anybody who knows how to read. I think a story should engage anybody who knows how to read. And I hope that my stories do, maybe on a different level for more sophisticated readers than, say, a high school kid, but still a story has got to grab you. That's why we read it.”

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Author:T.C. Boyle

“I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.”

Thinking Needs Should Kind Self Might Fun Stuff Sound Interesting Subjects Reader Prove Add Expected Evident Prove It

Author:Lorin Stein

“I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.”

Ifs World Needs Stills Age Rooms Five Reader Wide Senses Miraculous Five Senses World Wide Web

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And to have a bigger vision of the magazine's style and an understanding that every [issue] should be well-balanced and hopefully surprising. To have a pink wall with a door of perception where he can bang his head on.”

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Author:Toni Jerrman

“I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the historicals, however, but if that's all I did I would go crazy, same with any of the other kinds of books. I need variety.”

Ifs Needs Writing Kind Book Crazy Reader Wide Mood Variety Mood Changes

Author:Joe R. Lansdale

“I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.”

People Ifs Needs Would Be Reader Program Committed Poetry Is

Author:Edward Hirsch

“The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader and that meaning doesn't exist or in here in poems alone.”

Needs Kind Ideas Poet Reader Poetry Is Need You Circuits

Author:Edward Hirsch

“In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot.”

Needs Film Given Imagination Accepting Reader Awful Engaged

Author:Neil Gaiman

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