The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditab...
Literature is language charged with meaning
I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.
Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.
Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.
I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.
Writers possess magic. It's in their w
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.
Books are the best companions as they make you sit near wisdom.
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a gen...
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.
You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett
Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while ot...
When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I don't know what to make of it, just write it like I tell it, so the reader can make...
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for?They are trying to take everything...
Writing is a craft, being an author is work, and having readers and a following is a gift.
Geschichten sind unser Gedächtnis, Bibliotheken die Lagerstätten für dieses Gedächtnis und Lesen das Handwerk, mit dem wir dieses Gedächtnis neu erschaffen können, indem wir es rezitieren und glossier...
Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere.
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