Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
Vladimir NabokovTags: readers-and-writers
Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're 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 MeyerTags: reading readers-and-writers
I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.
Kage BakerTags: writers death readers readers-and-writers
We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration of the self. This development part of what distinguishes the "modern" from the "early modern" has shaped the work of many of our most celebrated authors, whose personal experiences indelibly and visibly mark their writing. It's fair to say that the fiction and poetry of many of the finest writers of the past century or so and I'm thinking here of Conrad, Proust, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Plath, Ellison, Lowell, Sexton, Roth, and Coetzee, to name but a few have been deeply autobiographical. The link between the life and the work is one of the things we're curious about and look for when we pick up the latest book by a favorite author.
James ShapiroTags: reading readers-and-writers modernity
Secret Notes:
He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born, he said, but we live in a strange neighborhood
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The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, caught at last in the rising flood of warm air, carrying the sand from the south. The Alps are folded above in the flickering light. And on the desk in the room beneath lies the writing which insists that the only escape is through the absolute destruction of everything you have ever known, loved, cared for, believed in, even the shell of yourself must be discarded with contempt; for freedom costs no less than everything, including your generosity, self-respect, integrity, tenderness - is that really what i wanted to say? It's what I have said. Worse still, I have pointed out the sheer creative joy of this ferocious destructiveness and the liberating wonder of violence. And these are dangerous messages for which I am no longer responsible.
Patricia DunckerTags: book-lovers readers readers-and-writers bookish
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
C.D. WrightTags: readers-and-writers
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.
AberjhaniTags: reading books poetry dreams literacy personal-growth poem-in-your-pocket-day readers-and-writers national-poetry-month world-poetry-day famous-authors famous-poets quotes-about-poetry quotes-about-poets readers-and-reading
Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Bernard CornwellTags: writing on-writing writing-craft readers-and-writers
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Alberto ManguelTags: inspirational reading readers reading-books readers-and-writers reasons-for-reading
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