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“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
― Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
― Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
“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.”
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“This is a forum for readers. Authors walk these halls at their own risk. I’ve been to the Coliseum in Rome. GR is just that. Books are gladiators. Readers are ravenous citizens awaiting their next bite of entertainment, all Caesars with thumbs readied for judgement. Even champions fall prey to sword now and then. And you know what they say about the pen and the sword…the analogy is a bit muddled, but it’s in there somewhere.”
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“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.”
― How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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.”
― How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”
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“Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.”
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“Bea insists that everyone who works in a bookstore wants to be a writer, but Henry's never fancied himself a novelist. Sure, he's tried putting pen to paper, but it never really works. He can't find the words, the story, the voice. Can't figure out what he could possibly add to so many shelves. Henry would rather be a storykeeper than a storyteller.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“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.”
― Postscript to the Name of the Rose
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.”
― Postscript to the Name of the Rose
“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.”
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“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book.”
― Any Duchess Will Do
― Any Duchess Will Do
“If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.”
― Rainbow - the shades of love
― Rainbow - the shades of love
“Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.”
― Impromptu Scribe
― Impromptu Scribe
“For everyone who’s ever finished a book
under the covers with a flashlight
when they were supposed to be sleeping.”
― I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
under the covers with a flashlight
when they were supposed to be sleeping.”
― I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.”
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“A task is only difficulty, when we not find the best strategy to get it done.”
― Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
― Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Dialogues must appear as natural as if coming from effortless writing. It must not sweat. Your beloved readers must not sweat. But here am I, literally sweating, because my characters are literally talking dirty in a steamy sweaty and bloody scene.”
― How to Make a Book
― How to Make a Book
“An artist without an audience is like a jar without jelly. There doesn’t always need to be much jelly in the jar, nevertheless a jar without jelly would feel jealous and empty.”
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“Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.”
― Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture
― Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture
“The use of motifs is an effective device for memorability—the repetition of certain symbols throughout the experiences of the protagonist helps the idea register in the memory or subconscious of the reader.”
― Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts
― Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts
“I sometimes think that good readers are poets as singular, and as awesome, as great authors them-selves.”
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“The Hokku poet's chief aim is to impress the readers with the high atmosphere in which he is living.”
― The spirit of Japanese poetry
― The spirit of Japanese poetry
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