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Reader Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that…
- Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it…
- There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be…
- I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes…
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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