The Lead Either Forges An Instant Connection With The Reader, Or The Package Fails.
No Poem Is Intended For The Reader, No Picture For The Beholder, No Symphony For The Listener.
The Longer You Work In This Business [movie], The More You Start To Be Able To See The Carpentry. You Can See Where Things Are Going, And It's Harder To Surprise You, As A Reader
If The Writer Were More Like A Reader, He’d Be A Reader, Not A Writer. It’s As Uncomplicated As That.
And Must I, Perchance, Like Careful Writers, Guard Myself Against The Conclusions Of My Readers?
What The Poet Says Has Never Been Said Before, But, Once He Has Said It, His Readers Recognize Its Validity For Themselves.
To Read Is To Translate, For No Two Persons' Experiences Are The Same. A Bad Reader Is Like A Bad Translator: He Interprets Literally When He Ought To Paraphrase And Paraphrases When He Ought To Interpret Literally.
There's A Difference Between Describing And Evoking Something. You Can Describe Something And Be Quite Clinical About It. To Evoke It, You Call It Up In The Reader. That's What Writers Do When They're Good.
