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Reader Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can…
- We expect a great man to be a good reader.
- There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of…
- Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
- O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or…
- The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal…
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- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman
- I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so… — Stephenie Meyer
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- 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