Reader Quotes

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Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington
You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will… — George Singleton
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer
They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch. — Cynthia Lewis
Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the… — Ezra Levant
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by… — John Granger
Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or… — Paul Kropp
There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in… — Sara Craven
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up â€¦ then down â€¦ then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. Itâ€™s… — Gabrielle Hamilton
Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for… — Adam Kirsch
The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul,… — Adam Kirsch
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and… — Bruce Holland Rogers
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration… — Uma Krishnaswami
As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carrâ€™s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speakâ€”a whispering that… — Eileen Myles
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to… — Rachel Kushner
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one… — Adrian Frutiger
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a… — Ayn Rand
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. — John M. Ford
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,… — Ellen Lupton

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