Reader Quotes - Page 6

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

Sharon Creech

Art, Book, Museums

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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Michael Cunningham

Speak, Authority, Opening

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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

Michael Cunningham

Book, Kissing, First Kiss

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Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

Sidney Hook

Political, Attention, Landscape

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I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

Julian Assange

Dna, Data, Ideas

"No Secrets" by Raffi Khatchadourian, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Order, Sublime, Despair

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RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.

Ben Marcus

Wise, Art, Pain

Ben Marcus (2013). “The Age of Wire and String”, p.92, Granta Books

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Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in fantasy fiction for young readers-you've found it!

Robert Liparulo

Law, Fiction, Stories

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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war... Mostly the animals understand their roles, but man, by comparison, seems troubled by a message that, it is often said, he cannot quite remember or has gotten wrong... Bereft of instinct, he must search continually for meanings... Man was a reader before he became a writer, a reader of what Coleridge once called the mighty alphabet of the universe.

Loren Eiseley

Beach, War, Animal

"The Unexpected Universe". Book by Loren Eiseley, www.wired.com. 1964.

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The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as one’s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and make readers feel a little less lonely and freakish.

Phillip Lopate

Lonely, Important, Example

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A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

Beryl Markham

Believe, Men, Hands

Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media

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Sara Creasy is a new writer to watch, and Song of Scarabaeus is a novel to read and enjoy. . . . The biological speculation rings with truth and possibility, the terraforming-gone-wrong creates an environment of delicious creepiness, and Creasy's imaginatively-constructed universe draws the reader in, to follow Edie and Finn's quest for freedom.

Vonda N. McIntyre

Song, Watches, Gone

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I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Katherine Dunn

Storyteller

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You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Justin Cronin

Book, Reading, Writing

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One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

Geoffrey Canada

Mom, Mother, Real

"Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

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In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

Jeannette Walls

Writing, Thinking, Brave

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I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

Charles Rolls

Thinking, Aviation, Flight

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To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

John Ashbery

Inspirational, Life, Quilts

John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

Kathryn Stockett

Interesting, Perspective, Maids

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In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the very root of our being. Dr. Bruteau is a philosopher of great measure whose work should be required reading for all who seek the deepest truth about themselves.

Sue Monk Kidd

Reading, Roots, Contemplative Life

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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

Reading, Thinking, Two

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The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

Fred Saberhagen

Stress, Book, Years

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Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

Scott McCloud

Creating, Invisible, Partners

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Johnny Ramone's autobiography is a no holds barred, straight-forward book written in a no-nonsense style that is Johnny personified. His story is written in his own actual words, so the reader gets an insight into what made him the unique, charismatic and exciting individual that he was. It also gives a great view of The Ramones from Johnny's perspective.

Tommy Ramone

Book, Unique, Views

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The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most recent developments in genetics. But this book is not simply another story of the ideological uses to which science may be put. Nadia Abu El-Haj has provided the reader with a very detailed analysis of the historical entanglement between science and politics. Her study should be required reading for anyone interested in the sociology of science-and also for those dealing with Middle Eastern nationalisms. This is a work of outstanding value for scholarship.

Talal Asad

Book, Reading, Race

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