For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my own History with its unparalleled Sufferings and surprizing Adventures (as the Booksellers might indite it), I know that the great Part of the World would not believe the Passages there related, by reason of the Strangeness of them, but I cannot help their Unbelief; and if the Reader considers them to be but dark Conceits, then let him bethink himself that Humane life is quite out of the Light and that we are all Creatures of Darknesse.
Peter AckroydTag: history time reader writer biography
Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.
Georges BatailleTag: writing writers communication literature reader rebellion
The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that - not very appetizing - food and thrive on it, sometimes for centuries.
Vladimir NabokovTag: writing literature reader writer
We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.
M.R. MathiasTag: book reader the-truth m-r-mathias michael-robb profound-realizations quotes-that-make-sense
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.
Paul TherouxTag: reading books book reader
The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers.
Tag: words heart reader buried evokes great-writer
It ain't just about writing on some documents,
author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.
Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.
David ScheierTag: wordplay reader short-stories writer author writers-on-writing writing-from-the-heart illustrator david-scheier francis-mithell-pumpernickel wordsmith
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.
James JoyceTag: reader james-joyce
What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.
Robertson DaviesTag: expression reader heard
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