Louise Rosenblatt Quotes

• Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

  Louise Rosenblatt

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.

  Louise Rosenblatt

  Memories, Past, Personality

  Louise Michelle Rosenblatt, Edmund J. Farrell, James R. Squire, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of English. Convention (1990). “Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt”, Natl Council of Teachers

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• Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

  Louise Rosenblatt

  Wise, Understanding, Literature

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• Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

  Louise Rosenblatt

  Book, People, Happens

  Louise Michelle Rosenblatt (2005). “Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

  Louise Rosenblatt

  Guidance, Relevant, Reader

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