Reader Quotes - Page 23

• One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

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• In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Thinking, Brave

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• To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Quilts

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Interesting, Perspective, Maids

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• Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

  Scott McCloud

  Creating, Invisible, Partners

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• The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most recent developments in genetics. But this book is not simply another story of the ideological uses to which science may be put. Nadia Abu El-Haj has provided the reader with a very detailed analysis of the historical entanglement between science and politics. Her study should be required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of science-and also for those dealing with Middle Eastern nationalisms. This is a work of outstanding value for scholarship.

  Talal Asad

  Book, Reading, Race

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• The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Reading, Fit, Program

  "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.

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• I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

  Mira Sorvino

  Jobs, Two Sides, Acting

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• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  Iris Johansen

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• Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the Blues, Gary brings his vocation as a New Testament teacher together with his passion for the blues and gives the reader scholarly knowledge and wise insight.

  Steve Stockman

  Wise, Teacher, Book

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• I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Fun, Reading, Book

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• Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

  Fay Weldon

  Fall, Support, Novelists

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• I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

  Helen Dunmore

  Individual, Feels, Knows

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• Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries, as well as lively and authoritative commentaries by some of today's leading neuroscientists. It will be enjoyed by professionals and general readers alike.

  Dale Purves

  Book, Illustration, Mind

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• Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

  Marco Arment

  Writing, Quality, Abandonment

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• Yes, beloved reader, our God reigneth, and if we crown Him Lord of all, Lord of our soul, Lord of our body, Lord of all the circumstance in our lives, we shall find that He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.

  Carrie Judd Montgomery

  Soul, Crowns, Body

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• Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.

  Amy Bloom

  Lying, Grief, Writing

  Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Growing Up, Crazy, Believe

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• I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices. Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

  Emily Giffin

  Real, Writing, Character

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• If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

  Laura Miller

  Children, Book, Lists

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• I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Expression, Giving

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• Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

  Dorothea Brande

  Philosophy, Mind, Prejudice

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.1, Lulu.com

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• Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Writing, Trying

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• The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

  David Pogue

  Book, Reading, Successful

  "The Kindle: Good before, better now". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

  Aileen Fisher

  Writing, Feelings, Pieces

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