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“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 meanin...”
“All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.”
“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.”
“There are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hourglass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which i...”
“Readers dont work for writers. They work for themselves.”
“She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.”
“I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.”
“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”
“Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.”
“And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?”
“Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.”
