Best reader & struggle Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a narrative theodicy--defense of God's goodness in spite of the undeniable reality of evil. . . . This is an honest and hard-hitting book about God's grace in and through tremendous loss of health and strength. Readers will find hope and help here if they are open to its message about the God-given 'strength to suffer well.'”

“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

“I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.”

Feels Struggle Reader Interpreting Allegory

Author:Lydia Davis

“Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.”

People Years Children Said States Reading United United States Struggle Reader Moved Starting Comic Comic Strips Garfield

Author:Jim Davis

“To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Hard America Moving Grows Struggle Alive Taught Reader Appreciate

Author:Alice Walker

“Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.”

Struggle Reader Tests

Author:Stephen D. Krashen

“When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.”

People Thinking World Artist Struggle Reader Paper Invites Outside World

Author:Adrian Tomine

“I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.”

Want Writing I Can Book Hard Novel Struggle Reader Size Scope Follow Me Cathedrals

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that.”

Way Important Whole Novel Struggle Reader Creating Cinema Gaps Attributes Erase Dostoyevsky

Author:Lav Diaz

“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?”

Feels Should Trying Firsts Would Be Belief Lines Decision Views Novel Struggle Figures Reader Boring Point Of View Titles Dna

Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff

“I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.”

Inspirational Wanted Struggle Saws Teacher Students Reader Lucky

Author:Ann Bancroft

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