Reader Quotes

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This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted… — Isaac Newton
Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader… — Lois Duncan
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that… — Roald Dahl
Good writing is good writing. In many ways, itâ€™s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the… — Rosemary Clement-Moore
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in… — Vladimir Nabokov
At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come… — May Sarton
Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land,… — Margaret Atwood
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it… — David Farland
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level â€’ there weren't any images of them, no… — Jim Butcher
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well… — Isabel Allende
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - thatâ€™s kind of a gift to the author.… — Po Bronson
....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a… — David Foster Wallace
She had always been a readerâ€¦ but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, sheâ€™d been caught… — Louise Erdrich
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the… — Stephen King
But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those words because he… — Kate DiCamillo
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more… — Henry David Thoreau

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