Reader Quotes

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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no… — Margaret Atwood
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's… — Margaret Atwood
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under… — Margaret Atwood
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you… — Margaret Atwood
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up… — Margaret Atwood
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky… — Ann Bancroft
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he… — Henry Adams
Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! — Charles Baudelaire
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into… — William Bernbach
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore… — Joseph Addison
For people who are readers, reading is important to them. — Jeff Bezos
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act… — Augustine Birrell
While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they… — Elayne Boosler
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you… — Ray Bradbury
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a… — Geraldine Brooks
I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric… — Terry Brooks

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