Reader Quotes

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You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read. — Cassandra Clare
Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists — Russell Kirk
It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like… — Murray Rothbard
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start — Horace
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. — Paul Gallico
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come… — Lawrence Clark Powell
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by. — Mark Twain
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost… — Roger Angell
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers. — Kurt Vonnegut
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is… — Willa Cather
Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed. — Marva Collins
Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers. — Avi Arad
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. — Avi Arad
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject… — William James
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has… — W. Somerset Maugham
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with… — Matthew Scully
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader. — Isaac Asimov

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