12 quotes found
“Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.”
“Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them.”
“But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.”
“The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of mod...”
“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is devoured by a reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is cre...”
“How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?”
“A good writer is an excellent reader.”
“If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.”
“Stories come alive in the telling. ()They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and tr...”
“Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.”
“Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.”
“Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and t...”
