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I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading. ↗


— John M. Ford


#book #certainly #completely #disposable #giving

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up. ↗


— Robert Kirkman


#been #crappy #going #got #i

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other. ↗


— Kenneth Koch


#each #entire #excited #got #had

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. ↗


— Kenneth Koch


#early #even #ever #friends #guess

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. ↗


— Arthur Koestler


#contemporary #hundred #reader #readers #should

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. ↗


— Mary Wesley


#deliberately #i #imagination #julia #left

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one. ↗


— Walter Jon Williams


#enjoy #enjoys #fiction #gene #invention

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. ↗


— Tobias Wolff


#read #reader #really #short #short story

Being a reader is how I choose to spend my life, every aspect of it, inside and outside of the classroom. I often wonder whether my identity as a reader, someone who reads voraciously and always has a book recommendation, is all I have to offer. That may be true, but it is an oversimplification. How can I express the extent to which reading has shaped who I am as a human being? Although I see myself as kind, I am not a demonstrative person. If I have ever brought you a book unasked for, know that I cared. I said everything to you that I wanted with that book. I have enough wisdom to acknowledge that an author’s words are more eloquent than my own. When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends. We know a great deal about each other already if we both read. I imagine this is why I strive so hard to get people around me to read. If you don’t read, I don’t know how to communicate with you. I know this is a shortcoming. Perhaps my mother, who worried that reading would make me socially stunted, was half right. I can never express who I really am in my own words as powerfully as my books can. ↗


— Donalyn Miller


#communication

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. ↗


— James Laughlin


#any #course #good #his #i






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