Reader Quotes

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My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader. — Barry Lane
There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a… — Meghan Daum
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many… — Lawrence Venuti
Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great… — Michael J. Sullivan
Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to… — Matthew Zapruder
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of… — Ron Currie Jr.
Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual. — Sol Stein
A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in. — Harold Hayes
From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky readers we are… — Gayle Brandeis
I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. — Tom Sizemore
The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. — Roger Mudd
I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be… — Anna Wintour
My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in its wonderful humor… — Judith Barrington
The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope their internal world… — Vera Pavlova
The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they're all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons… — Michael O'Leary
A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the… — Grant Morrison
What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback… — Kelly Sue DeConnick
Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was… — Scott McCloud
To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in… — Simone de Beauvoir

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