All Quotes By Tag: Readers
“So many authors, so little time to disqualify them!”
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“No, I am not imagining a book-burning, warmongering, anti-intellectual fascist regime – in my plan, there is no place for re ghters who light up the Homers and Lady Murasakis and Cao Xueqins stashed under your bed – because, for starters, I’m not banning literature per se. I’m banning the reading of literature. Purchasing and collecting books and other forms of literature remains perfectly legitimate as long as you don’t peruse the literature at hand.”
“The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.”
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“All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are”
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“I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.”
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“The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.”
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“If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.”
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“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope—and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing—that I shall draw a letter that begins, ‘Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that…’ It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with ‘the reader.’ And there’s no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn’t matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so.”
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“When I work, I’m just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that’s not familiar. But I’m not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.”
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“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”
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“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.”
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“As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge – bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge – is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.”
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“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader’s perceptual sky.”
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“Poetry is the essence of life in which twinkling lights tickle the minds of readers and take them to a world where no one else can enter.”
“We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they’ll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we’ve promised.”