Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to. — E L Doctorow
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by… — Andre Gide
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,… — George Orwell
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety… — Samuel Johnson
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last… — Samuel Johnson
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade… — Oliver Goldsmith
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. — Edward Hoagland
I cherish my work and all of my readers. — Kris Carr
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a… — John Green
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. — John Green
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in… — Alberto Manguel
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now… — Alberto Manguel
The better the book the more room for the reader. — Holbrook Jackson
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff… — Robertson Davies
Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings… — William Safire
Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of… — William Safire
Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter. — Bernard Malamud
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was… — Jeffrey Bernard
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it. — Jorge Luis Borges

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