“I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.” WritingFilmCertainLiteratureMy OwnCasesReaderDifficultyLimitationViewersConcentrating Author:Manuel Puig
“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.” KindUseForcePowerfulAttentionConsciousnessModernFieldsReaderAreasAll KindsOperationsEnterpriseListenersViewersStagingOverloaded Author:Saul Bellow
“But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her. If the concept of identification suggested that an individual experiences a work as a mirror in which he might recognize himself, the notion of relatability implies that the work in question serves like a selfie: a flattering confirmation of an individual's solipsism.” IfsBookDifferentDonePlayMightFacesIndividualReaderDemandExpectationsConceptsMirrorsRemainsNotionPassiveViewersRelatableFlatteringIdentificationConfirmationWork To Be DoneSolipsismRelatability Author:Rebecca Mead
“Each day is a surprise - and each day I learn something wonderful and new. Both in writing thrillers and in reporting the news, I work to change the world a little bit. I want readers - and viewers - to be surprised and captivated and even inspired.” WorldWantWritingLittlesBitsWonderfulReaderLittle BitNewsSurpriseInspiredChanging The WorldEach DayViewersThrillersCaptivated Author:Hank Phillippi Ryan
“A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.” ShouldArtBookAudiencePiecesPaintingReaderExpectationsWorking ItViewersSculpture Author:Max Kellerman
“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.” FormCompanyMediaReaderCostActivityFoundationRelyFundGrantsUsersListenersViewersFeesDonation Author:Robert G. Picard
“I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.” ThinkingCertainCoursesInterestSpecialReaderNewsOrganizationYeahPressesProfitCommunicateBiasViewersSpecial Interests Author:Mark McKinnon
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWritingTurnsReaderMirrorsListenersViewers Author:Claudia Rankine
“The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.” MomentsLevelsReaderBoringFilmmakingViewersNoticingBoring Things Author:Miranda July
“[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.” KnowsHas BeensArtFeelingsActionCommunicationReaderRecognitionShockListenersViewers Author:Walker Percy
“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.” ThinkingKindDoeArtCertainLiteratureSpaceReaderVoidListenersViewersSpectatorsInsert Author:Jonathan Meades
“You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a writer. That's what I do. I want it to be written. I want it to work on the page first and foremost. So when I'm writing the script, I'm not thinking about the viewer watching the movie. I'm thinking about the reader reading the script.” ThinkingKnowsWantWritingFirstsProblemReadingWrittenReaderPagesScriptsDamnViewersBlueprintsScreenwritingDamn Things Author:Quentin Tarantino
“So people that read the New York Times are not gonna have the slightest idea what really happened here. So not only are the Drive-Bys themselves a little dense and not curious and uninformed, so are all of their viewers and readers.” PeopleLittlesIdeasHappenedNew YorkReaderCuriousViewersNew York TimesDenseUninformed Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.” BookShowsOrderAudienceFiveReaderPercentInsightWitConsistentlyImpressedViewersColumnsRestrainingRestraining Orders Author:Richard Roeper