Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them;… — Beth Richardson Gutcheon
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes;… — E. M. Forster
The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem. — H. M. Tomlinson
Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change. — Terry Brooks
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and… — Craig Lancaster
By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment — W G Sebald
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the… — Charles Lamb
Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. — Marshall McLuhan
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in… — James Fallows
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or… — John Ruskin
Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or… — William Francis Henry King
What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is… — Coleman Barks
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are… — Darrell Huff
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. — E L Doctorow
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in. — E L Doctorow

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