Reader Quotes

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O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything. — William Wordsworth
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind… — Ambrose Bierce
Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader,… — Donald E. Westlake
I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was… — Joanna Southcott
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers… — Garry Trudeau
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. — Mary Wesley
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one. — Walter Jon Williams
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is… — Anne Stevenson
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust… — Dan Simmons
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader. — A. E. van Vogt
I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her… — Thomas Perry
We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic… — Garrison Keillor
I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers.… — Scott Adams
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings:… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer… — D. A. Carson
... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who… — Ellen Glasgow
But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive… — Laura Bush
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words… — Allen Tate
With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher… — Josh Marshall
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. — Samuel Johnson

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