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Reader Quotes by Isaac Asimov
- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
- I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of…
- I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.
- What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not…
- Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can…
More Reader Quotes
- 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