“As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.” ThinkingLooksPoliticalViewsReaderRangeGuidancePolitical View Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.” PeopleBookStatesStoriesShowsWantedPoliticalLeftViewsPovertyWrittenCrimeReaderPoint Of ViewWelfareOfficialsCopiesLayersRealisedBrutalitySwedenWelfare StateCriminality Author:Maj Sjowall
“The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a tried metrical suasion-contrivance or a specially invented pattern of physical insistences, equally, if not more, binding in its effect on the reader. From a straight linguistic point of view, there is room for wonder if there is not latent vice in this environment in which pleasurable physically-compelled responses, produced by incidents of poetic utterance, are identified with the Good.” IfsForceRoomsViewsAttentionWonderEnvironmentEffectsReaderResponsePatternsVicesPoint Of ViewPoeticCompelledCompulsionIncidentsContinuityBindingUtteranceLatentInsistence Author:Laura Riding
“While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.” WellsBookViewsReaderPoint Of ViewWorthwhile Author:Terry Pratchett
“The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 in 1931 was a satisfactory operation. Some may think that an intelligent investor should have been able to sell out much closer to the high of 381 and to buy back nearer the low of 41. If that is your own view you are probably a speculator at heart and will have trouble keeping to true investment precepts while the market rushes up and down.” IfsThinkingShouldHeartMayHas BeensAbleViewsPsychologyTroubleReaderLowsShould HaveTestsIntelligentAskingSellsInvestmentSellingOperationsBuyingInvestorsUp And DownShould Have BeenRetrospectSpeculators Author:Benjamin Graham
“Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.” WellsDoeCharacterViewsReaderPlusLabyrinthMain Characters Author:Alain Robbe-Grillet
“Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.” KindStillsStoriesTurnsChallengesViewsStepsInformationReaderSurpriseVariousCornersPoint Of ViewTwistsTwists And Turns Author:Jonathan Evison
“A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.” DifferentMightAsksViewsNovelReaderConversationStartingPoint Of ViewHopefullyStarting PointDifferent Points Of View Author:Anne Fortier
“One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views, fairy tales, instead of the customary pair theory/observation. This impression would certainly be mistaken. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is rather to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.” UseMightScienceViewsTheoryReaderLimitsIntentionObviousImpressionTalesObservationFairyConvincePairsFairy TaleMistakenMetaphysicalMultiplicityScientific MethodEpistemologyMethodology Book:Against Method Source: Against Method
“In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.” FirstsPersonsMatterImaginationViewsPartySubjectsPerspectiveReaderThirdsPoint Of ViewEncountersDistinctionInvitesRepresentationObserversPornographyEroticSubject MatterFirst PersonThird Person Book:Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation Source: Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation
“Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.” GrowsViewsClearPoetReaderWalkingMountainLimitsEssentialsTeaCollectionsShelvesIndispensableMoonlightHerbsBedrockGraniteThermos Author:Jane Hirshfield
“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated.” Has BeensViewsReaderNewsNewspapersGenuineMagazinesIllustration Author:Andy Grundberg
“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?” FeelsShouldTryingFirstsWould BeBeliefLinesDecisionViewsNovelStruggleFiguresReaderBoringPoint Of ViewTitlesDna Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff
“I do think they [French] view my writing itself as exotic - though that's probably not the best term for it - to a small extent, mainly because I say things that most French writers would probably hesitate to say for fear of offending someone or upsetting public sensibilities. I don't think that answers the question, but I'm not much good at figuring readers out or I would probably be writing bestsellers.” ThinkingWritingTermAnswersViewsReaderUpsetSensibilityExoticOffending Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“Especially with a magazine like Lampoon, which was very dependent on newsstand sales. Our readers didn't usually occupy the same address long enough to get a subscription, because they were in college, or they were hippies. So it was very up-and-down, and we had to calculate how many to print, which was always sort of a headache from a business point of view.” LongEnoughViewsCollegeReaderDown AndPoint Of ViewMagazinesAddressesDependentPrintUp And DownHippieHeadacheSubscription Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!” PeopleThinkingMindEndsCoursesViewsReaderSavingScoreExpansionDistortionCaricaturesCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.” SaidBookPoliticalViewsFictionReaderNarrativeAnnoyingPolitical View Author:Jen Lancaster
“The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.” IfsWantGovernmentViewsWeekWindReaderPaperLateNewsHolidayWeekendSaturdayPapersFridayBad NewsBest Times Author:Bob Schieffer
“I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.” WayWritingMightViewsReaderPrizeVery Happy Author:Will Self