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Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside hi...
The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.
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...
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
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...
You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
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.
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
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.
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,...
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...
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himse...
Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.