Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image