Reader Quotes - Page 10

• Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

  Antonya Nelson

  Taken, Character, Hardship

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• I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Thinking, Remember, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Fire, Rereading

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• I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

  Byron Katie

  Wise, Teacher, People

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• Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hate, School, Boys

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1970). “Selected prose”

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• I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

  Hugh Howey

  Media, People, Use

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• Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

  David Low

  Views, Feelings, Belief

  David Low (1956). “Autobiography”, London : M. Joseph

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• In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.

  Jane Yolen

  Compassion, New Experiences, Differences

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• Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.

  Steven Saylor

  Men, Poet, Contradiction

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• I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

  Tom T. Hall

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• Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us with yet more that will likely be unfamiliar to most readers. But the real treat of the essays is how they will make Artificial Life researchers squirm as they recognize their own intellectual sleights of hand exposed for all to see. Those researchers and the Genesis Redux contributors are all ultimately interested in what it is that truly distinguishes us beings from other lumps of matter.

  Rodney Brooks

  Real, Philosophical, Hands

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• Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Lonely, Smart, Emotional

  "Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Book, Design

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• Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book whats really at stake, but ultimately its not about them - its always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

  Andrew Gross

  Meaningful, Book, Issues

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• Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up our government and our leaders to clear-eyed analysis, unaffected by professional spinmeisters and agenda-pushers.

  Tony Auth

  Jobs, Independent, Reality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

  Jeremy Brett

  Stories, Actors, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

  Sarah Schulman

  Writing, Gay, People

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• All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

  Jeanne Herry

  Education, Reading, Book

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• It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

  Greg Bear

  Thinking, Egalitarianism, People

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• Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

  William H. Gass

  Reading, Gossip, Crowds

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• The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Reading, Reform, Three

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.248, Library of Alexandria

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• For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

  Gloria Steinem

  Book, Reading, News

  "Valley of the Dolls doesn't have to stay relevant to be a camp classic" by Judy Berman, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2016.

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• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Personal Opinions, Perception

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics

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• Your reader is at least as bright as you are

  William Maxwell

  Literature

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• A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Drinking, Sea, Design

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