Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down… — Joseph Sugarman
A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work. — Gabriel Fackre
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms… — Tom Stoppard
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our… — Saul Bellow
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life… — Sylvia Plath
The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn… — George Steiner
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my… — Jeff VanderMeer
I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their… — Jeff VanderMeer
readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of… — David Gelernter
I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the… — Michael J. Fox
Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners… — Al Franken
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. — Robert Frost
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. — Robert Frost
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to… — Carlos Fuentes
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. — Margaret Fuller
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was… — Neil Gaiman
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader. — Nikki Giovanni
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. — Seth Godin
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent… — Lady Gregory

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