“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer
Christian Science Monitor (October 24, 1979).
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
The quote "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect y…" is famous quote attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.
Truth of Intercourse.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
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Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time
“What you keep before your eyes will affect you.”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
Amy Tan book The Bonesetter's Daughter
Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter
Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac
Kia Makarechi, "Stevie Nicks On Fleetwood Mac's Reunion Tour, Rihanna, Kanye West & Her Early Years In Music", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/03/stevie-nicks-fleetwood-mac-reunion-rihanna-kanye_n_2220029.html Huffington Post, 3 December 2012
“If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Book II, ch. 18.
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