Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. ... I should… — Augustus De Morgan
Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants… — Joan Didion
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you… — Marilyn Hacker
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase. — Richard Stallman
One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided… — Robert Nozick
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in… — Fay Godwin
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed. — Madeleine L'Engle
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part… — Stephen King
Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers. — Leah Price
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the… — Cyril Connolly
The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to… — Mark Haddon
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down. — David McCullough
People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books. — Harvey Pekar
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a… — Frank Smith
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books.… — Gary Oldman
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this… — Blaise Pascal
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers. — Matt Mullenweg
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books. — Anthony Horowitz
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose. — Mark Strand

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