Reader Quotes

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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. — Carlos Fuentes
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters. — Thomas Ernest Hulme
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance — Philip Larkin
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own. — Salvatore Quasimodo
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the… — Mark Twain
When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success… — Helen Mirren
It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense… — John Updike
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. — Henry David Thoreau
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would… — John Cheever
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing. — Elwyn Brooks White
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences. — Anne McCaffrey
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip. — Elmore Leonard
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad… — Asa Larsson
As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next. — Tracy Chevalier
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read. — Suzanne Collins
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for… — Dawn French
General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of… — Tucker Max
You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves. — Margaret Atwood
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the… — George Steiner
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or… — Douglas Coupland

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