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Reader Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.
- What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human…
- The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling…
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- 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
- A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother! — Charles Baudelaire