#reader

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#letters #men #other #people #poems

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#barely #been #cases #companies #four

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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