633 Reader Quotes for You to Enjoy

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? John Barton

Easily Poem Poetry Results Reader Expect Any Should Grasped Why Fast

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. John Barton

World Way Poetry Had Reader Effect Which Then Views Desired

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows. John Barton

God Only Ideal Reader Knows Who

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? John Burdett

Money Winner Difficult Think Spend Topics Immensely Plugging More Paris Thriller Safe Reader Sure Because Get American Bangkok Interested Disinterested Average Average American Based Why Publishers Playing

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow. John Ciardi

Give He Him Reader Opinion Anyhow Deserve Deserves Honest

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself. John Connolly

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I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such. John Corey Whaley

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I'm very impressed by the imagery in the 'Apologia', which is a kind of sustained poem. It's not just a piece of apologetics of the sort you find in Jesuit literature: 'Why I came over', and so on. It's a tremendously rewarding book but requires perseverance on the part of the reader. John Cornwell

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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. John Green

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst. John James Audubon

Needs Think Waters Must Would Hurricane Scarcely Laying Never Idea Reader Dry Terrific Content Witnessed Quench South Quite Form Grandeur Land Persons Sweep Who Waste Thirst

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one. John Lahr

Life Work Meets Uncertain Imperfect Write Writer Writers Self Know Reader Always Authoritative Mean Them Page Stands Why

I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency - it's much harder to pick up if there's something else there. John Lanchester

Work Own Else Something Something Else My Own Could Pick Like Read Reader Frequency Overlap Up Tuning Much Radio Harder

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. John Leonard

He Reader Without Achieves Which Much Aspiring Appetite Pancake

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged. John Lithgow

Slow Reader Dogged Very

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation. John M. Ford

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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. John M. Ford

Reality Sometimes Will Else Something Something Else Attempts True Empirically Reader Than Author Intent Decide Decipher Certainly

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean. John M. Ford

Me Seems Allow Ideal Reader Decide Happening Mean Show Things

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world. John McGahern

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But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. John McGahern

World Live Once Finds Until Reader Private Private World Again

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it. John Scalzi

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I'm a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place. John Thune

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The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph. John Updike

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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. John le Carre

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