Top 29 Quotes About Reader Response
#1. I remember a lecture from one of my lit classes about a theory called "Reader Response", which basically says: More often than not, it's the readers --- not the writers --- who determine what a book means.
Kelly Corrigan
#2. Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.
Brandon Sanderson
#3. 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
#4. A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
William Gibson
#6. ARE YOU ASKING ME WHAT THOUGHTS YOU SHOULD THINK?? What kind of Orwellian police state do you think I'm running here? Think whatever thoughts come into your thinking device, sir. (response to a reader asking what to keep in mind while reading Warm Bodies)
Isaac Marion
#7. Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.
Dolly Parton
#9. There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.
Dani Harper
#10. By living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.
Alice Von Hildebrand
#12. I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.
Linda Sue Park
#13. I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.
Jane Byrne
#14. I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.
Diane Wakoski
#15. They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.
Richard Kadrey
#16. I stroked a big red A on top of his paper. Looked at it for a moment or two, then added a big red +. Because it was good, and because his pain had evoked an emotional reaction in me, his reader. And isn't that what A+ writing is supposed to do? Evoke a response?
Stephen King
#18. A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher.
Steven Magee
#19. I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.
Michael Parenti
#20. Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.
Leni Zumas
#21. Trying to convey beauty in war was a technique to try to prevent the reader from looking away or turning the page in response to something horrible. I wanted them to linger, to ask questions.
Lynsey Addario
#22. Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it,
Kevin Spacey
#23. Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain.
David Lagercrantz
#24. The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'
Ayelet Waldman
#25. Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#26. As much use as tits on a fish.
Mal Peet
#28. He says he needs mothering."
" ... Even if he didn't need mothering, which after all is only another way of saying he needs a slave.
Hilary McKay
