Reader Quotes

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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book. — Dakota Blue Richards
I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's… — Rich Sommer
With engaging prose, Engelman takes readers on a delightful journey?that both entertains and educates ? of modern civilization and women's central role to ensuring the… — Geeta Rao Gupta
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay
In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader… — Constance Hale
For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance… — Leigh Michaels
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession. — Jorie Graham
It is that the Mail constantly dares to stand up to the liberal-left consensus that dominates so many areas of British life and instead represents… — Paul Dacre
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent… — Elena Ferrante
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds. — James Laughlin
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature. — Julia Alvarez
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices… — Susan Sontag
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... — William Petersen
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. — Salvatore Quasimodo
Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same… — Isobelle Carmody
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J. Brown carries the… — William R. Ferris
This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that… — Poppy Z. Brite
As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson… — Margaret Carlson

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