Author Quote by Brooks Adams

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if…

— Henry Adams

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another…

— George Mikes

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is…

— Elie Wiesel

“The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and fifty million…

— Allan Gurganus

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of…

— Doris Lessing

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a…

— Arthur Koestler

The millionaire says to a thousand people, 'I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.' Guess how many go…

— Jim Rohn

“One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the confirmed belief…

— Henry Miller

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

— Mortimer Adler

The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much…

— Norman Cousins

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

— John Gimlette