Readable Quotes

58 quotes by 55 authors

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler
The virtue of books is to be readable. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction… — Craig Shaw Gardner
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her… — Christopher Castellani
A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but… — Louise Bourgeois
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. — Herbert Bayer
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo… — Karin Lowachee
In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses,… — Darryl Pinckney
Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style… — Debby Applegate
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. — E. M. Forster
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable? — Brian Kernighan
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his… — Blake Bailey
Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong,… — Laurence D'Orsay
Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who… — Jimmy Wales
As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is… — Scott Harshbarger
Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. Itâ€™s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you… — Karin Slaughter
The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial… — Sherry Ortner
It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound...… — Michel Hazanavicius
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually… — Saul Bass
The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and… — Ellen Gallagher

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