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- 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… — Sarah Fielding
- The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or… — Unknown Author
- There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the… — 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… — 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… — Arthur Eddington
- What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — 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,… — Erik Erikson