A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
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Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with. — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing.” — Joseph Eastwood Copy Share Image
I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or… — William Safire Copy Share Image
I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role… — Geeta Rao Gupta Copy Share Image
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam]… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
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