Reader Quotes

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It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them. — Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of… — Willa Cather
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some… — Kate Chopin
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations… — William J. Brennan
Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associatedÂ with them. The ancient prediction that Dzogchen… — Tsultrim Allione
To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading. — Kelly Gallagher
I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader. — Kelly Gallagher
When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in… — Rowan Pelling
It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips â€“ biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses,… — Maxine
Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-personÂ narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly originalÂ child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation toÂ readers… — Katharine Weber
In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where thereâ€™s… — David Foster Wallace
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic… — Lytton Strachey
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains… — Hudson Stuck
If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with… — Norman Geisler
The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying. — Mark Bernstein
While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush… — David Talbot
And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly… — Soren Kierkegaard
. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world,… — Orson Scott Card

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