What a writer brought to a book didn’t matter as much as what the reader contributed.
– Lisa Morton
Related Quotes:
- A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
- I loved you with texture. You loved with a softness. Texture brought detail, softness brought folds. Folds brought creases and creases had secrets. – Dominic Riccitello
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
- The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Tom Wolfe
- The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Thomas Wolfe
- Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world. – KJ Kilton
- Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world. – KJ Kilton
- A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. – Samuel Johnson
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author. – Neil Gaiman
- Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn’t there, and that creative invention becomes the book. – Siri Hustvedt
- To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. – Johnny Rich
- To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. – Johnny Rich
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can’t resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it. – Richard Eyre
- I have made a personal decision NOT TO WORRY. This has tremendously contributed to my happiness!! – Sandra M Michelle
- Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights. – Billy Graham
- EVERY person and experience HAS contributed to who you have become today. NOTHING was wasted – Angie karan
- EVERY person and experience HAS contributed to who you have become today. NOTHING was wasted – Angie karan
- Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession. – Mark Twain
- I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
- But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others. – Heather Graham
- As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality. – Bruce R McConkie
- Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis. – Kenneth E Boulding
- How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. – John Green
- There’s no crying in the rank book. – William Morton
- I’m so sorry about all you’re going through, but I’m not sorry that it brought you to me. – Lisa Brown Roberts
- A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader. – AD Posey
- A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader’s mind. – Debasish Mridha
- Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. – Verlyn Klinkenborg
- Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them. – Maria Stoica
- The best tool in a writer’s arsenal is a reader’s imagination. – Tim Campbell
- The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning. – Marty Rubin
- A writer’s partner should be a good reader…otherwise she/he will get bored what’s happening around. – Vikash Shrivastava
- The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader. – Jenim Dibie
- I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for. – Christos Tsiolkas
- A good writer is an excellent reader. – Cyci Cade
- A writer’s job is done once the lines touch reader’s forbidden chords. – Shreya Gupta
- As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. – Gloria D Gonsalves
- I don’t think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you’re a passionate reader, AND read passionately. – Michelle D Kwasney