Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

Names generate meaning in a short amount of space â€” they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be… — Joshua Ferris
Take my advice, dear reader, donâ€™t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But… — Joseph P. Farrell
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a… — Aleksandar Hemon
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself. — J. Milton Hayes
A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so… — Caryl Phillips
The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times. — Davy Jones
I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series… — Joseph Addison
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of… — Alberto Manguel
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the… — James Boswell
Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader,… — Kathleen Grissom
Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of… — Timothy West
Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders. — Jim Woodring
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration… — Horace
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in… — John Ciardi
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow. — John Ciardi
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the… — Nicolas Chamfort
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the… — Hermann Hesse
If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting… — Beth Richardson Gutcheon

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