Sharon Draper Quotes

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.

It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

That's what's interesting: When you release an album, everyone hears it their own way.

In a graphic novel, you have to allow for a certain amount of freedom on the reader's part to experience it how they choose.

Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.

People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.