Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.
Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.
You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.
The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
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...
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
اگر آدم فقط پنج شش کتاب را به خوبی می شناخت، چه محقق برجسته ای می شد
A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.
I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.
Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone,...
This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men (as readers, critics, and editors) can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers.
We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone...
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning b...
Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incompr...
Writers are disguised "sorcerers". Armed with their mighty pens, they cast spells on their readers using words that could pierce right through the heart and soul. If our writings moved you, made you c...
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