Reading Experience Quotes

• To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

  A.C. Grayling

  Reading, Views, Ideas

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• I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.

  Allison Joseph

  Reading, Giving, Tangible

  Source: atticusreview.org

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• I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical novel to go in with the expectation that this is going to deliver the same kind of reading experience. I think what's contemporary about my book has something to do with how condensed things are.

  Danielle Dutton

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

  Roger Zelazny

  Powerful, Reading, Imagination

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• Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools that last beyond the classroom setting.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Support

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.101, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience. The interchange between the reader and the work. For example, I know far too much about Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Because I know as much as I do about their personal lives, I can't read their work without this interjecting itself. So if I had it to do over, I'd probably go the way of J.D. Salinger or Thomas Pynchon. And just stay out of it altogether and let all the focus be on the work itself and not on me.

  Tom Robbins

  Reading, Thinking, Focus

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• Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems. Levin's fearless willingness to tackle any subject combines with her subtle intelligence to produce a rare reading experience, the moving, psychologically sophisticated and intriguing work of a poet with both guts and craft

  Molly Peacock

  Moving, Reading, Voice

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• Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Grief, Believe, Reading

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• No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

  Harlan Coben

  Reading, Character, Black And White

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• Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Reading, People

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• Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.

  Sol Stein

  Reading, Stories, Tvs

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• In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Reading, Written

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• ...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

  John Green

  Jobs, Real, Reading

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• Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

  John Green

  Reading, People, Understanding

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• I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.

  Anne Carson

  Drama, Reading, Adventure

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• The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, Reading, Function

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• Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Teenager, Love You

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