Reader Quotes

2239 quotes by 1386 authors

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be… — Sarah Caudwell
Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts… — Charles Simic
If thereâ€™s any other message in this to readers, itâ€™s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesnâ€™t make any difference where… — J. Michael Straczynski
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot. — Charlotte Bronte
When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but… — Salman Rushdie
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all… — Charles Olson
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock… — Jasper Fforde
For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a… — Kate Morton
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact… — Milan Kundera
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity… — Eudora Welty
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or… — Alan Bennett
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing. — Ernest Hemingway
Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to… — Milan Kundera
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader — Ernest Hemingway
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is… — Donald Knuth
You have to be a speedy reader because thereâ€™s so so much to read. — Dr. Seuss
The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a… — Mary Oliver
If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light… — Gary Paulsen
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a… — Robert Stone
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process. — B.F. Skinner

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