Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help you find more… — Marc Kielburger
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. — C. E. M. Joad
I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story… — David Maraniss
Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin. — Sara Nelson
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure… — Mary Ritter Beard
You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before… — Jim Trelease
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have… — Kris Radish
Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing â€“ by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesnâ€™t move forward all at… — Elizabeth Sims
I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged… — Edwin A. Abbott
A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes… — Elizabeth Cunningham
In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend… — William R. Looney III
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere? — J. Norman Collie
Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force. — A.A. Attanasio
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in… — B. Traven
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. — Arthur Brisbane
A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who… — Roy H. Williams
Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but thereâ€™s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly… — Lewis Buzbee
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to… — Lewis Buzbee
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. — Anatole Broyard
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do… — Paul Gallico

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