Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.
Christopher B. KrebsTags: readers-and-writers books-influence
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.
Harold BloomTags: interpretation readers-and-writers translation
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 DillardTags: reading books writing writing-craft readers-and-writers writing-process
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 DillardTags: reading writing understanding writing-life readers-and-writers
I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.
Laura Anne GilmanTags: readers-and-writers
I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.
John CheeverTags: readers-and-writers
Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's about using those lies to say something true and real. It's about showing the reader something. It's about making them feel.
And how we do that as authors is to put ourselves into our work, and make it mean something to us, so that it will mean something to the reader. That's what we should do. That's our job.
Tags: truth lying readers-and-writers
Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word
Ann SimpsonTags: writing-life readers-and-writers fiction-writing
A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.
Anthony LiccioneTags: readers-and-writers
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
John HodgmanTags: reading-books readers-and-writers john-hodgman
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