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Reader Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.…
- But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
- I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
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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
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- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
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