Reader Quotes

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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his… — Samuel Johnson
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. — Fran Lebowitz
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness… — A. E. Housman
Your reader is at least as bright as you are — William Maxwell
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it… — William Brinkley
Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story. — Ben Bova
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea… — Nicholas Negroponte
... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination". — Raymond Keene
(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of… — Raymond Keene
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in… — Neville Cardus
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself.… — Evelyn Waugh
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others. — Emanuel Lasker
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An… — Samuel Johnson
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this… — Henry David Thoreau
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters… — Samuel Johnson
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas… — Emanuel Lasker
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense. — John C. Maxwell
There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind.… — Robert Frost
If youâ€™re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful.… — Theodora Goss

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