Reader Quotes - Page 36

• I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

  Terri Windling

  Average, Might, Gems

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• If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.

  Stan Lee

  Powerful, Writing, Character

  Stan Lee, Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra, Ashwin Pande, Dean Trippe (2015). “Stan Lee's Chakra The Invincible Free Comic Book Day Special 2015”, p.10, Graphic India

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• I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

  Dave Gibbons

  Steps, Surprise

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• When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Delight, Pages

  "The good companions" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2006.

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• A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

  Del Howison

  Dream, Cutting, Flesh

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• I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

  Carol Anshaw

  Reading, Writing, Conspiracy

  "Carol Anshaw And Stephen McCauley Discuss Gay Literature". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

  Carol Anshaw

  Character, Gay, Assumption

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• I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "Seven Ways Electronic Books Will Make Us Better Readers" by Steve Leveen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.

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• A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra’s Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Romance, Secret, Age

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• The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Independent, Eye

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• To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task.

  Gayle Pemberton

  Encouragement, Past, Understanding

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• Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Past, Mystery

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Sound, Ears

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• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, Eye

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• Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Knowledge, Consistency

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• Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Book, Brain, Sparks

  Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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• Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

  Buzz Bissinger

  New York, Hands, Cities

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• The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Important, Helping, Function

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• I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Country, Avid, Hair

  "Beauty Queen: The Evelyn Lauder Interview". Interview with Rob Haskell, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 14, 2011.

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• I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again.

  Sophie Thompson

  Book, Natural

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• I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.

  Sophie Thompson

  Kings, Reading, Son

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• The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

  Aberjhani

  Light, Air, Tone

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.16, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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• My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.

  Mat Johnson

  Hate, Book, Suits

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Giving, Laughing

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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