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“I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.”

People Writing Bigs Individual Rooms Poet Reader One On One

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“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.”

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Author:Laura Riding

“reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.”

Thinking Way Want Writing Persons Reading Rooms Creative Reader Higher Disappear Tricks Indian Passive Rope

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.”

Moving Given Rooms Emotion Pieces Emotional Materials Reader Explaining

Author:William Zinsser

“I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.”

Way Littles Reading Found Loses Rooms Failing Subjects Reader Corners My Way Sufficient License Carelessness Inattention

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.”

Author:Mason Cooley

“Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.”

Book Might Rooms Reader Hymns Homeschooling

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.”

Mind Littles Ends Stories Running Rooms Reader Resolve

Author:Stephen King

“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.”

“In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.”

“The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.”

Thinking Rooms Reader Absence Plot

Book:Reality Hunger

Source: Reality Hunger

“I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading with the entire cast in the room for The Clone Wars makes the experience much more organic and I love that.”

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Author:Jim Cummings