His Reader Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. — Glen Cook
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader. — Sarah Fielding
The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The… — Bienvenido Lumbera
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,… — Samuel Johnson
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it. — Jorge Luis Borges
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or… — Henry Watson Fowler
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an… — Arthur Eddington
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human… — H. L. Mencken
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. — Amos Bronson Alcott
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. — Charles Caleb Colton
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between… — Erik Erikson

Who Wrote These His Reader Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 His Reader Quotes as follows: