Reader Interpretation Variance

Table of Contents

• Personal Interpretation and Subjectivity
• The Reader-Book Relationship
• Books as Collaborative Creations
• Impact of Reader's Background and Context
• Books and Community
• Other

Personal Interpretation and Subjectivity

It is quite amazing how two people can read the same book and yet reach different conclusions.

When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.

Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.

Readers will read into a book something of themselves. There is never just one book.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.

Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.

That’s the magic of books. They’re never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

The idea is that readers don’t come blank to books. Consciously and not, we bring all the biases that come with our nationality, gender, race, class, age. They you layer onto that the status of our health, employment, relationships, not to mention our particular relationship to each book – who gave it to us, where we read it, what books we’ve already read – and as my professor put it, ‘That massive array of spices has as much to do with the flavor of the soup as whatever the cook intended.

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No person - no two people - read the same book.

The Reader-Book Relationship

The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented author who crafted each word, the fascinating individuals we meet inside the pages- and the readers we discuss and share the book with when we finish.

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

Books belong to their readers.

They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

More books have resulted from somebody’s need to write than from anybody’s need to read.

No two persons every read the same book. – Edmund Wilson “Nor does any one person ever reread the same book!

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader’s mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.

When I look through Bob, the actual stories between his mottled covers may have been written by others, but they belong to me now. Nobody else on the planet has read this particular series of books in this exact order and been affected in precisely this way. Each of us could say the same about our respective reading trajectories. Even if we don’t keep a physical Book of Books, we all hold our books somewhere inside us and live by them. They become our stories.

Books as Collaborative Creations

Literacy in the sense of knowledge never can be second-hand, and books also carry knowledge and qualify that context precisely; thus, every book stays new to every new reader.

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you

No two persons ever read the same book

Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

If they read two books then two books will be given to 'First Book,'

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader’s recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth.

To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs.

There is more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to open a book at all. For any given reader, however dedicated he might be, such total abstention necessarily holds true for virtually everything that has been published, and thus in fact this constitutes our primary way of relating to books. We must not forget that even a prodigious reader never has access to more than an infinitesimal fraction of the books that exist.

If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then the reader shifts his loyalties.

A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.

Impact of Reader's Background and Context

Books are born from guts, from the need of writing them, and are read in the same way, in the angst to read them, from a primite need.

While reading a book, the book becomes your companion but writing a book, you become your own companion.

I never forget that a book is not an end in itself. Just like a newspaper or a magazine, a book is a means of communication, which is why I try to grab the reader by the throat and not let go to the end. I don't always succeed, of course; readers tend to be elusive. Who is my reader?

ATTENTION ALL AUTHORS: Be very careful who you give acknowledgement to in your books. Reason: That acknowledgement is in permanent, ink and they are forever associated with you, that book and your name. -Word to the Wi

The spouses of authors ought to really read their better halves books. What is found amidst those pages may enlighten them to knowing a side of their partner that can only be seen on the written page.

For every reader his or her book and for every book its reader.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.

The idea is that readers don’t come blank to books. Consciously and not, we bring all the biases that come with our nationality, gender, race, class, age. They you layer onto that the status of our health, employment, relationships, not to mention our particular relationship to each book – who gave it to us, where we read it, what books we’ve already read – and as my professor put it, ‘That massive array of spices has as much to do with the flavor of the soup as whatever the cook intended.

Maybe it’s the readers that make a book global.

Not every book is for every reader.

In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well.

Books and Community

People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book.

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Or else they are likely going to move on to another book.

I am the reader, not the book.

...books also connect us to all others - of our own or previous times - who have read what we've read. In the community of readers, we instantly become linked to those who share our love for specific characters or passages.

People aren't like books. A familiar book is always the same, always comforting and full of the same words and pictures. A familiar person can be new and challenging, no matter how many times you try to read them.

will you be the one reading the book or writing the book

Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on.

These books are feeding that same reader who has been starved for more books like The D a Vinci Code .

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.

Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And so the travel writer is doing the traveling for you.

Other

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

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