Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

Yes, beloved reader, our God reigneth, and if we crown Him Lord of all, Lord of our soul, Lord of our body, Lord of all… — Carrie Judd Montgomery
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. — Marco Arment
The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child… — Rosemary Wells
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very… — Laura Miller
If you would be a writer, first be a reader — Allan W. Eckert
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues to influence the… — Larry Brooks
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to… — Peter Benenson
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book… — David Pogue
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of… — Aileen Fisher
Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few 'diet books' that… — David L. Katz
Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. — Verlyn Klinkenborg
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your… — E T A Hoffmann
I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you… — E T A Hoffmann
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always… — Fay Godwin
Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and… — Jason Ellis
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's… — Robert Graves
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. — Gertrude Stein
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. — John Mason Brown

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