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Reader Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore…
- The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may…
- A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of…
- Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for…
- I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series…
- Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part…
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- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than… — Leonard Michaels
- As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles
- 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