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“Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.”

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Book:Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Source: Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

“Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!”

Ifs Should Writing Mean Children Book Kids Sleep Reader Adults Letters Novelists Seventeen

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.”

Book Reading Process Sleep Half Struggle Reader Exercise Highest Assumption

Book:Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed

Source: Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed

“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.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Should Years May Helping Kids Mother Asks Father Stuff Sleep Reader Sexuality Ask Me Beneficial Interviewers

Author:Missy Elliot

“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”

People Writing Book Ends Turns Sleep Reader Pages Chapters Going To Sleep Writing From The Heart

Author:Sidney Sheldon