99 Quotes About Readers-and-writers

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

Secret Notes:He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born, he said, but we live in a strange neighborhood & they will need help figuring things out & I won't always be around to explain it to them.

Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

Who holds the ultimate responsibility for the story? The writer or the reader, the reader or the writer . . .

If you don't believe anything else, believe this: when I take you by your hand and begin to talk, my friend, I believe every word I say.

Writing, he'd said, is the most dangerous thing there is. Because when you write, you're only creating half the ideas. The reader brings the other half. And when you have two people involved in a plot, what's that called? Her answer: boring .His response: a conspiracy.

Je le sais désormais, en tant que lecteur, il faut faire confiance à l'auteur, au poète. Ils savent comment s'y prendre pour nous extirper de notre vie ordinaire et nous envoyer tanguer dans un autre monde dont nous n'avions même pas soupçonné l'existence. C'est ce que font les auteurs de talent. C'est ce que me fit M. Baudelaire.