1. "Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text."
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Quote by Dean Koontz
2. "The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader."
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Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
3. "If there’s something you want to say, say it. I’m not a mind reader."
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Maya Banks, Sweet Possession
4. "The law does not require you to be a mind-reader"
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Quote by Richard Harris
5. "READER, you"
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Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
6. "reader, and"
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Sharon Creech, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
7. "Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader..."
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Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
8. "On the page, punctuation performs its grammatical function, but in the mind of the reader it does more than that. It tells the reader how to hum the tune."
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Lynne Truss, Eats
9. "My gentle Reader, I perceive / How patiently you’ve waited, / And now I fear that you expect / Some tale will be related. / O Reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring, / O gentle Reader! you would find / A tale in every thing."
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Quote by William Wordsworth
10. "In 1938, Louise Rosenblatt introduced reader response theory or the transactional view of reading. She asserted that what the reader brings to the reading act - his or her world of experiences, personality, and current frame of mind - is just as important in interpreting the text as what the author writes. According to this view, reading is a fusion of text and reader."
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Carl M. Tomlinson, Essentials of Young Adult Literature