Top 5 Quotes by Louise Rosenblatt

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

Book, Reading, Writing

The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.

Louise Rosenblatt

Memories, Past, Personality

Louise Michelle Rosenblatt, Edmund J. Farrell, James R. Squire, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of English. Convention (1990). “Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt”, Natl Council of Teachers

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

Louise Rosenblatt

Wise, Understanding, Literature