Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is…

I'll tell you one thing, and this is banal to say because it just makes it sound like it's all planned, and nothing is…

— Tilda Swinton

“Readers are made by readers. ”

— Aidan Chambers

If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is atrophied. And…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to…

— Lydia Davis

“If any woman opens her legs for you, don't feel so lucky to be fed with nonsense, she has been a bitch for a…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

— Anne Michaels

“In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

— Milton Glaser

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.

— Edward Abbey

People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate.…

— James Gleick

“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.”

— Anthony Powell

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

— Karl Ove Knausgaard

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all…

— Henry Miller

The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.

— Jonathan Agnew

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained…

— Kate Braverman