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“Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.”

Turns Literature Understanding Information Reader Benefits Tasks Method Appreciation Helpful

Book:The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

Source: The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

“To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task.”

Should Enough Past Understanding Reader Tasks Encouragement Posts Racist Offensive Contradictory Dense Past And Present

Author:Gayle Pemberton

“Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, which portrays Tesla as intensely human. . . . Anyone, whether simply an interested reader or a professional historian, engineer, or physicist, will finish Tesla with a deepened understanding of his world, character, and accomplishments.”

World Humans Character Age Understanding Reader Worthy Accomplishment Historian Engineers Biographies Physicist Inventor Electrical Tesla Carlson

Author:Robert Rosenberg

“Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.”

Writing Littles Use Understanding Common Too Much Reader Lays Details Disgusting Multitudes Comprehension Niceties

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.”

Life Inspirational Science Understanding Reader Speed Feel Good Speed Reading

Book:Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

Source: Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters

“The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably conclude that, if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of the readers has much more frequently been insulted by fiction.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus

“As far as nonviolence and Spiritual Activism, Marshall Rosenberg is it! Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their communication skills. Applying the concepts within the book will help guide the reader towards a more loving, compassionate, and nonviolent way of understanding and functioning with others, and foster more compassion in the world. I highly recommend this book.”

“There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].”

People Ifs Giving Writing Two Ideas Care Understanding Answers Planets Reader Tests Who Cares

Author:Richard Bach

“If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.”

Ifs Reading Understanding Reader Superiors Misunderstanding

Author:Arlo Guthrie

“It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.”

Thinking Social Understanding Reader Bunch Editors Wire Moron Brits

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.”

Feels Writing Sometimes Would Be Courses Language Understanding Goal Forget Novel Reader Mediums Novelists Transparent

Author:Paul Auster

“A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know you're speaking, even, but you still have no idea how you will say it. Or the moment when, as a reader, you're reading, and you are understanding what you are reading, but still have utterly no idea what will come next for you, what precisely the author wants to say. For me, that is the ultimate level of literary depth, of literary density.”

Knows Want May Stills Ideas Moments Reading Next Understanding Levels Reader Ultimate Infinite Depth No Idea That Moment Density Fluctuation

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than they might have had before. We suffer from being quick to judge, quick to make excuses for ourselves and others, and I would like the reader to feel that we are all, more or less, in a similar state as we love and disappoint one another, and that we try, most of us, as best we can, and that to fail and succeed is what we do.”

Feels Trying Humans Mean Different States Might Suffering Understanding Failing Judging Reader Succeed Excuse Disappoint What It Means To Be Human Quick To Judge

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.”

Wanted Reading Understanding Reader Salinger

Author:John Dufresne

“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.”

Needs Should Wells Understanding Vision Issues Doors Style Wall Reader Perception Bigger Magazines Hopefully Editors Surprising Balanced Crew Bangs Doors Of Perception

Author:Toni Jerrman

“It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.”

Thinking Needs Writing Littles Two Ideas Stories Might Easy Understanding Reader Scene Skills Fairs Flow Narrative Clue Protagonists Ebb And Flow

Author:Dennis Green

“If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding and empathy, and hopefully, something has been illuminated for you. And I tink that's what happendd for a lot of readers with my novels.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Character Understanding Walks Novel Reader Empathy Hopefully Plight

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results in a deeper understanding as opposed to the novel proclaiming this is what it is right and this is what is wrong.”

Thinking Understanding Results Fiction Novel Reader Deeper Domain Proclaiming Deeper Understanding

Author:Mohsin Hamid

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