Reading Experience Quotes
Reading Experience Quote of the day
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.
Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.
Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.
Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.
All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.
Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.
...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.
When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.
