Reader Quotes

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Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of… — Joseph Addison
I live in the same house I've lived in for 25 years. I haven't gone off and bought mansions. Even though my subject is living,… — Martha Stewart
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers. — Stephen King
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare… — Christopher Logue
Books belong to their readers. — John Green
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. — Ann Voskamp
Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating,… — Edmund White
David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people as he can.… — Al Gore
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome… — Stephen King
Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless… — John Updike
Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves. — Mohsin Hamid
One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads. — H. L. Mencken
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. — William Randolph Hearst
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when… — Clifton Fadiman
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. — Tahir Shah
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. — Anton Chekhov
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and… — Stephen Greenblatt
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do… — Walt Whitman

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