Good Reader Quotes

15 quotes by 12 authors

We expect a great man to be a good reader. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer. — Zadie Smith
But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive… — Laura Bush
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's… — James Laughlin
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief… — Clive Cussler
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not… — Diane Wakoski
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a… — Nathalie Sarraute
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication… — Henry Miller
Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a… — Vladimir Nabokov
Tis the good reader that makes the good book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. — Stephen Ambrose
Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses. — John Barton
A leader is a good reader of lifes experience as a better student to be the best teacher to others through live examples. — Anuj Somany

Who Wrote These Good Reader Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 15 Good Reader Quotes as follows: