Top 27 Dream Reader Quotes
#1. Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
W. H. Auden
#2. I hope that when the characters in my novels dream beyond their current circumstance, it inspires the reader to do the same.
Kristine Scarrow
#3. To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.
Wendy J. Dunn
#4. The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#5. I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#6. I was born to enjoy life. And so it is.
Louise Hay
#7. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
Joan Didion
#8. I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience.
Oliver Neubert
#9. A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
Victor J. Banis
#10. How many animals of each kind did Moses take into the ark?
Daniel Kahneman
#11. The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#12. My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.
Andre Dubus
#13. Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide ... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.
Warren Farrell
#14. Oh, lovely world,' thought Sarah, in love with life and all its varied richness.
Winifred Holtby
#15. We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
Steve Jobs
#16. Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.
Joan Didion
#17. A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.
Steven Erikson
#18. The issue is not that you are wearing buckets of make up. The real problem is how does the inside look
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#19. Only idiots, dreamers and lovers stare, my mother used to say. And she doesn't look much like a dreamer
Eli Yance
#20. We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.
Tom Perrotta
#21. Stop over-thinking, put more energy on what you really want to do.
Amit Ray
#22. The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#23. To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.
Alan Joshua
#24. The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#25. A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.
Del Howison
#26. From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
