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A memorandum iswritten not toinformthereader butto protect the writer.
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
I don't know if Mr Kissinger is a great writer, but anyone finishing this book is a great reader.
The thing is to produce an impression on the readerthe best you can, the truest you can, but some impression. The newest despisers of form and conventionalization produce no impression at all.
Circumlocution, n. A literary trick whereby the writer who has nothing to say breaks it gently to the reader.
Literature is a power line and the motor, mark you, is the reader.
The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal woundthat he will never get over it.
That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.
A writer's ambition should beto trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years'time and for one reader in a hundred years.
Si vous e" tes malheureux, il ne faut pas le dire au lecteur. Gardez cela pour vous. If you are miserable, you should not say so to the reader. Keep it for yourself.
Gutenburg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.
Aworkof art has no importance whatever to society.It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me. 606
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na|«ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na|«ve than some of the limited objectives he has now.
En re alite , chaque lecteur est, quand il lit, le propre lecteur de soi-me" me. L'ouvrage de l'e crivain n'est qu'une espe' ce d'instrument optique qu'il offre au lecteur afin de lui permettre de discerner ce que, sans ce livre, il n'e u" t peut-e" tre pas vu en soi-me" me. In reality, each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is onlya kind of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable him to discover in himself what he could not have found but for the aid of the book.
Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
Car loin de le [le lecteur] ne gliger, l'auteur aujourd'hui proclame l'absolu besoin qu'il a de son concours actif, conscient, cre ateur. Ce qu'il lui demande, ce n'est plus de recevoir tout fait un monde acheve , plein, clos sur lui- me" me, c'est au contraire de participer a' une cre ation, d'inventer a' son tour l'½uvreet le mondeet d'apprendre ainsi a' inventer sa propre vie. Far from neglecting him [the reader], the author today proclaims the absolute necessity of the reader's active, conscious and creative assistance.What he demands of the reader is no longer to receive a ready-made world, complete, full, closed in upon itself.On the contrary, the reader isasked toparticipateinthe creation, toinvent for himself aworkand the worldand tounderstand thus how to invent his own life.
A busy manwho can keep up a daily journal resembles a Steel person preparing for bed with the shades up When such a man publishes parts of his journal, the reader must conclude he always knew the lights were on.
Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli. Depending on the reception of the reader, books have their own fate.
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
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