Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.
It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose.
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say.
I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.
I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and analyze it just like that.
Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.
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