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Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader. ↗


— Georges Bataille


#literature #reader #rebellion #writers #writing

We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate. ↗


— Eleanor Brown


#readers #reading #sisters #equality

Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity. ↗


— Tedd Arnold


#teen #young-readers #life

She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything really interesting absorbed her so that she never knew what was going on about her. The little girls to whose houses she went visiting had found this out, and always hid away their story-books when she was expected to tea. If they didn't do this, she was sure to pick one up and plunge in, and then it was no use to call her, or tug at her dress, for she neither saw nor heard anything more, till it was time to go home. ↗


— Susan Coolidge


#readers #reading #reading-books #family

Imagine someone is racing intentionally towards his own destruction and you can save him - do you go ahead and save him? Imagine there's an operation, and the patient is a drug user and the drugs are incompatible with the anesthetic, but the patient is ashamed of being an addict and does not want to tell the anesthesiologist - do you talk to the anesthesiologist? Imagine a trial and a defendant who will be convicted if he doesn't admit to being left handed - do you tell the judge what's going on? Imagine he's gay, and could not have committed the crime because he's gay, but is ashamed of being gay. It isn't a question of whether the defendant should be ashamed of being left-handed or gay --- just imagine that he is ↗


— Bernhard Schlink


#imagination

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. ↗


— Nikki Giovanni


#authority #classes #i #overcomes #reader

Life without a Kindle is like life without a library nearby. ↗


— Franz McLaren


#ereader #kindle #life

The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able. ↗


— R.S. Guthrie


#indie-books #readers #life

Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word ↗


— Ann Simpson


#readers-and-writers #writing-life #love

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. ↗


— Stephen King


#emotion #find #finest #go #gross-out






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