“How to Read Like a Writer” and “The Reader as Artist”

Mike Bunn, “How to Read Like a Writer”

1. The goal of reading like a writer is to grab onto what you think is important to you; certain text that have a realistic appeal too it.
2.    Before you start reading a text consider the background details.
3. Its good to have a layout of questions to follow while your reading. This can be used as a guide until you have adapted into the style of asking yourself questions about things in a text.

A quote that I found interesting was “You must look at a book the way a carpenter looks at a house someone else built, examining the details in order to see how it was made.” I found this quote interesting because its telling me how you just can’t look at the exterior of things. you have to dig in deeper to look beyond a text just being a text and a house just being a house that someone else built.

Toni Morrison, “The Reader as Artist”

1. There are two approaches when it comes to reading; a skill and a art.
2. Skill is just the average standard when it comes to writing but art is more.
3. Author’s make the choice of where they want to direct their readers to give off a certain emotion or tone.

A quote I found interesting was “I was surrounded by adults who told stories, reshaped and solicited them from each other as well as their children. I found this quote interesting because I have experienced this myself during my own childhood. It mostly occurred at large family gatherings when family members would tell a story that they hold deeply to their heart. It was only when other family members from different generations pitch in about certain details they would remember that I would realize that everyone had a different version of the the same story.