Every Reader Quotes
28 quotes by 22 authors
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The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
— Cornelia Funke
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Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.
— William Zinsser
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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with…
— John Fowles
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Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in fantasy fiction for…
— Robert Liparulo
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I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor…
— Jeremy Brett
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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his…
— Samuel Johnson
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Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?â€â€”but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of…
— Alan Perlis
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Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your…
— Claude C. Hopkins
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Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.
— Harry S. Truman
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Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will transform every reader…
— Richard Wiseman
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a…
— Garth Stein
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Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that…
— Anna Quindlen
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We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.
— Walter Wangerin
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without…
— Marcel Proust
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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader…
— Marcel Proust
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For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.
— Jonathan Franzen
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Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
— Alberto Manguel
Who Wrote These Every Reader Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 28 Every Reader Quotes as follows: