Reader Quotes - Page 34

• What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

  Philip K. Dick

  Statistics, Belief, Subjective

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “Beyond Lies the Wub”

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• I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

  Louis Begley

  Writing, Confession, Interest

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• There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

  Carl Barks

  Character, Differences, Faces

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• I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.

  Simon Baker

  Country, Believe, Broken

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

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• Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

  Aidan Chambers

  Made, Obvious

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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• You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

  Aidan Chambers

  Reading, Literature

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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• I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

  Eoin Colfer

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer on Doctor Who". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

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• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors.

  Sharon Creech

  Book

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• Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Online, Ifs

  "Modern Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Prefers Paper to iPad" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

  Marco Arment

  Reading, Giving, Devices

  "Instapaper inventor links inattentive reading to information obesity" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

  Aravind Adiga

  Crazy, Years, Cities

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• Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Kids, World

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• But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Mind, Doe

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• In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Smart, Firsts, Cases

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• I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

  Robert Carlyle

  Balls, Television, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

  Simon Callow

  Doctors, Years, Film

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• The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Yield, Things In Life, Ideas

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2001.

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• The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

  Sylvia Day

  Would Be, Stories, World

  "Interview: Sylvia Day, author of 'Bared to You'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 23, 2012.

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• My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

  Diane Duane

  Children, Passion, Only Child

  "Wizards in a new millennium: an interview with Diane Duane". Interview with Kelly Knox, www.wired.com. August 7, 2012.

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• What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

  Diane Duane

  Years, Trying, Found

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• Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

  Helen Dunmore

  Book, Doors, Mourning

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• The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Alive, Dull

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• If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.

  Ted Dekker

  Voice, Leader, Risk

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• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Journey, Discovery

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• I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Believe, Writing, Views

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