Reader Quotes

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I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I… — Monica Ali
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was… — Alan Bradley
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic… — Alan Bradley
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be… — Alan Bradley
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book. — Chetan Bhagat
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing. — Jennifer Egan
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers. — Richard Paul Evans
Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led… — Richard Paul Evans
I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's. — Joseph J. Ellis
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have… — Alan Furst
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or… — Henry Watson Fowler
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings… — John M. Ford
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career. — Nora Roberts
This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does… — Emil Artin
The understanding between a non-technical writer and his reader is that he shall talk more or less like a human being and not like an… — Arthur Eddington
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight… — David Foster Wallace
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is. — Mark Twain
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom. — Frederick Forsyth
Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not… — Rachel Gibson

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