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Kate DiCamillo quote: "The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear..."
The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. Kate DiCamillo
Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work... Orson Scott Card
I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form. Ian Mcewan
With the confidence and peace of mind native to true genius, I lay my life story before the world, so that the reader may learn how to educate himself to be a great tomcat, may recognize the full extent of my excellence, may love, value, honour and admire me- and worship me a little. Should anyone be audacious enough to think of casting doubt on the sterling worth of this remarkable book, let him reflect that he is dealing with a tomcat possessed of intellect, understanding, and sharp claws.... E. T. A. Hoffmann
Mathematicians among my readers do not need to be informed that ". . ." is the algebraical sign representing a blend of wheeze, croak, and hiccough. P. G. Wodehouse
Haruki Murakami quote: "I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence,..."
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop. Haruki Murakami
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. Samuel Johnson
I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few hours of a long eternity, become so worrisome to me. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dr. Seuss quote: "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a..."
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. Dr. Seuss
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers. Octavio Paz
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong. Kate DiCamillo
There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts. Alexander Dumas
A. Whitney Brown quote: "the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose..."
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others. A. Whitney Brown
Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it's full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter. John Leonard
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them. Alan Bennett

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