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Reader Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the…
- I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
- As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used…
- I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers'…
- I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of…
- When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that…
- When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but…
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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 am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- 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
- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond
- 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
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman