Louise Rosenblatt Quotes

#1. I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

Julianna Baggott

#2. Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

Louise Rosenblatt

#3. Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

Louise Rosenblatt

#4. they passed through the wide-open gates into the city whose parents had hired a prostitute as a babysitter and never come home. The

Nicholas Eames

#5. A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

Louise Rosenblatt

#6. Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

Louise Rosenblatt

#7. Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.

Aijaz Ahmad

#8. You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.

Greg James

#9. A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

Charles Lindbergh

#10. This was no figment of his imagination.
This was flesh, blood and pure sin in a dress.

Savannah Stuart

#11. The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.

Louise Rosenblatt