Reader Quotes

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Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined… — John Steinbeck
From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a… — Mina P. Shaughnessy
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish… — Neil Gaiman
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. — Betty Edwards
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and… — Robert G. Vosper
As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation… — John Bates Clark
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose… — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary… — Wassily Leontief
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered… — Alfred Marshall
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition… — John Maynard Keynes
The literature Nobel laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.A scientist cannot do… — Sune Bergstrom
Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders. — Howard G. Hendricks
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a… — John F. Kennedy
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the… — Salman Rushdie
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly… — Northrop Frye
Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed… — Donald Murray
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps,… — Victor Hugo
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth… — Margaret Atwood

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