Reader Quotes

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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written — Irwin Shaw
Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and… — Andrew Gross
Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up… — Tony Auth
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis
I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor… — Jeremy Brett
My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people. — Sarah Schulman
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25… — Jim Trelease
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the… — David Foster Wallace
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special… — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may… — Joseph Addison
All readers are good readers, when they have the right book. — Jeanne Herry
It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian,… — Greg Bear
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its… — Adrian Frutiger
I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but… — Jack Handey
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn
Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding… — William H. Gass
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform… — Robert Green Ingersoll
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News. — Gloria Steinem
There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him. — Richard Usborne

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