#reader

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#convince #creator #fiction #him #history

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#feel #i #i do #i think #making

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#advises #another #any #before #contradict

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#compete #each #few #forms #her

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#please #reader #subjects #task

We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us with desires... That is the value of reading and is also its inadequacy. To make it into discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#readers-and-writers #reading #writing #writing-craft #writing-process

Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#mankind #supernatural #the-tolkien-reader #inspirational

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#became #become #being #bible #eloquent