Reader Quotes

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Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our… — Maturin Murray Ballou
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my… — Buzz Bissinger
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work. — Daniel J. Bernstein
I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health… — Evelyn Lauder
I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again. — Sophie Thompson
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've… — Sophie Thompson
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance… — Aberjhani
Both my parents were big readers. — Christopher Bollen
My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book. — Mat Johnson
It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of… — Christopher Bollen
You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the… — Christopher Bollen
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. — Thomas de Quincey
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. — Benjamin Franklin
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part… — Joseph Addison
Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in… — Bill Bryson
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress? — Samuel Johnson
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes… — Washington Irving
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those… — John Dryden
O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so… — Robert Southey

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