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Reader Quotes by Jane Smiley
- The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to…
- When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page…
- A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path…
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
- 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