Reader Quotes

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In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. — Oliver Goldsmith
Those who write clearly have readers. — Albert Camus
From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with… — Pat Conroy
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. — Roland Barthes
When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged in… — David Sedaris
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. — Neil Gaiman
We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new… — Jacob Bronowski
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according… — Joshua Reynolds
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has… — Bruce Chatwin
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. — Frederick Marryat
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the… — Patricia Highsmith
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of… — Cory Doctorow
The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage… — Jonathan Franzen
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. — Yann Martel
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point… — John Edensor Littlewood
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that… — John Scott
When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price? — David Letterman
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you… — Walter Darby Bannard
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and… — William Osler

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