Quote of the day: (Manyfer--writers on readers.) “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.” ― John Cheever “Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.” ― Vladimir Nabokov He wrote secret notes to people he hadnt met yet. Some of them arent even born, he said, but we live in a strange neighborhood & they will need help figuring things out & I wont always be around to explain it to them.” ― Brian Andreas “And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because youre not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? Youre my kind of time being and together well make magic!” ― Ruth Ozeki “Statistically, if youre reading this sentence, youre an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow Neanderthal!” ― Dick Meyer “I am so happy that I made someone cry today - dont worry Im a writer. Its when they make me cry that its a problem.” ― Tina Smith “When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.” ― Aberjhani “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 books form hardened.” ― Annie Dillard “What good is a writer if he can’t destroy literature? And us ... what good are we if we don’t help as much as we can in that destruction?” ― Julio Cortázar “Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?” ― Annie Dillard “Im not so arrogant to think Im the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.” ― Laura Anne Gilman “I love books because I dont have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.” ― Unknown. “Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.” ― C.D. Wright “Stories are the wildest things of all - stories chase and bite and hunt.” ― Patrick Ness “A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.” ― John Fowles “Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” ― Christopher B. Krebs “I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing--and reading--is a solitary business. And it’s good to know I’m not alone.” ― Shannon Celebi “If you give a writer a line, theyll take a paragraph…” ― Suzanne McKenna Link “...what really makes for readability is not clarity but attitude: the attitude of your prose toward out elusive friend the Reader and the role you invent for that invented being in your invented world.” ― Stephen Koch “Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.” ― Janae Mitchell Thats all, folks! (Sent from my writing desk in the principality of Ft. Wayne where the sun is shining... and its freezing cold. Wonder what the weather is like in the U.S. I miss my country!)
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:26:47 +0000
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