Reader Quotes - Page 18

• It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.

  Don Roff

  Land, Imagination, Hook

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• True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

  Félix J. Palma

  Self, Views, Giving

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• I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

  Andrew Greeley

  Writing, Responsibility, World

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• If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Book, May, Ifs

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• Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

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• Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.

  Rafe Esquith

  Baseball, Children, Kids

  Rafe Esquith (2007). “Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56”, p.80, Penguin

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• Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Levels, May, Willing

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• Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Action, Emotion

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• Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer's task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

  Emil Ruder

  Individual Work, Tasks, Matter

  Emil Ruder (2001). “Typographie”, Arthur Niggli

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• Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

  Heather Hart

  Book, Doors, Marketing

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• 'Above The Thunder' is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find this remarkable debut novel not only irresistible but impossible to put down.

  Tony Ardizzone

  Beautiful, Wise, Book

  "'Above The Thunder' by Renee Manfredi", www.penguinrandomhouse.com. May 10, 2005.

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• What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine.

  Rebecca Mead

  Children, Book, Identity

  Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.184, Broadway Books

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• Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper and Metzger's sympathetic engagement with Catholic ecclesiology is challenging and reciprocal. I especially appreciate how the authors emphasize and explore the vital connection between ecclesiology and eschatology, something very beneficial to readers seeking to better appreciate how living the Faith in community today relates to the hope of entering fully into Trinitarian communion in the life to come.

  Carl E. Olson

  Appreciate, Community, Catholic

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• From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

  Mark Strand

  Book, Views, Prose

  "In The Presence Of America: A Conversation With Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. ... I should advise the reader not to make up his mind on this point until he has well weighed two facts which nobody disputes, both separately and in connexion. First, logic is the only science which has made no progress since the revival of letters; secondly, logic is the only science which has produced no growth of symbols.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Two, Growth, Mind

  Augustus De Morgan (1860). “Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic”, p.72

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• I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Teenager, Reading, Discovery

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• One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided what the result should be in any case by applying the given view itself, this would preclude discovering it did not correctly fit the case. Readers who hold they would plug in to the machine should notice whether their first impulse was not to do so, followed later by the thought that since only experiences could matter, the machine would be all right after all.

  Robert Nozick

  Views, Would Be, Machines

  Robert Nozick (1990). “Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Book, Perfect

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• The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

  Leah Price

  Book, Giants, Shoulders

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• The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Writing, Shoes

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• I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

  David McCullough

  Book, Today, Madness

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, People, Fiction

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• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin
  "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Book, Reading

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• It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.

  Paul Gallico

  Veins, Littles, Pages

  Paul Gallico (1946). “Confessions of a Story Writer”, New York, A. A. Knopf

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