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Reader Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who…
- It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
- Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only…
- The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched…
- If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then…
- Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only…
- Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.
- At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize…
- We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized…
- I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror…
- The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that…
- But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,…
- The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the…
More Reader Quotes
- 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
- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond
- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels
- As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles
- 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