Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: books literature reader readership
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: humor writing fools readership folly audiences
It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the reader.
Moral: there exist obsessive ideas, they are never personal; books talk among themselves, and any true detection should prove that we are the guilty party.
Tags: writing paradoxes detection guilt responsibility readership detective-stories
When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it’s being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn’t have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing—maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world.
Don DeLilloTags: loneliness reader audience readership
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.
Richard AdamsTags: readership watership-down
The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role.
One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is, if not to have read the same books, to have read at least some books in common with the other person—which means, moreover, to have non-read the same books. From the beginning of the relationship, then, it is crucial to show that we can match the expectations of our beloved by making him or her sense the proximity of our inner libraries.
Tags: imagination truth reading books love romance literature relationships interiority readership the-universe compatability inner-lives
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