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Reader Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that…
- the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
- Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with…
- Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them…
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- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want… — J. Michael Straczynski
- To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte
- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood