Reader Quotes - Page 27

• A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

  Julia Alvarez

  Book, Doe, Literature

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• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Men, People, Waiting

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• Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Writing, Long, People

  Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.3, Allen & Unwin

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• This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Sex, Hot, Passionate

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• Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.

  Robert Collier

  Want, Copywriting, Produce

  "Robert Collier Copywriting Course - Masters of Marketing Secrets: Learn to Write Sales Letters That Pay".

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• Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.

  Charlotte Mendelson

  Reading, Thinking, Doors

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• I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Intelligent, Diversity, People

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• The violence in the Executioner books is merely stage-dressing for dramatizing the commitment and dedication Bolan has to his ideals and the lengths to which he will go to honor them. We can learn this message of love and commitment and carry it into our own lives without the violence and bloodshed, and of course it is this wish that fuels the writing. I do not want my readers to pick up a gun and follow Bolan's example; I want them to be stirred by his commitment and to find ways to meet the same challenges without resort to violent means.

  Don Pendleton

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

  Don Pendleton

  Hero, Classic, Mack

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• It should come as no surprise to readers of the MAPS Bulletin that psychedelic plants are used as a sacrament by many native cultures all over the world. It may not be so obvious that these same plants are often incorporated into the coming-of-age ceremonies of these various societies.

  Rick Doblin

  Age, Culture, World

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• The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.

  Bienvenido Lumbera

  Lying, Book, Opportunity

  Bienvenido Lumbera (1984). “Revaluation: essays on Philippine literature, cinema, and popular culture”

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• People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren’t just fantasies, you know. They’re so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life.

  Mahbod Seraji

  Book, Writing, People

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

  Alberto Manguel

  Occupation, Humiliation

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew.

  Stephen J. Binz

  Christian, Book, Mean

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• Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

  Rebecca Mead

  Book, Reading, Doe

  Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.24, Broadway Books

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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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• I love connecting with readers!

  Sylvia Day

  Connecting

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• I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

  Honor Blackman

  World

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• To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

  Nicole Krauss

  Taken, Numbers, Bookstores

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• Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

  Uma Krishnaswami

  War, Heart, Emotional

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• To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Unique, Hands

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• They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Class, Lunch, Remember You

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• The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if he's going to the trouble of reading what I've written -- I'm a slow reader myself and I guess most people are -- why, the least I can do is make it as easy as possible for him to find out what I'm trying to say, trying to get at. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

  E. B. White

  Reading, Writing, People

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• 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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• Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

  Alan Perlis

  Fun, Philosophy, Bittersweet

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