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Reader Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.
- Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
- Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention…
- If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including…
- There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which…
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- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman
- 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
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
- Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks
- I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary