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- For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and…
- Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!
- From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a…
- The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and…
- Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose…
- The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.…
- Packed with interwoven personal narratives which the author ties together to show the fragility and molding of Buryat memory and Buryat shamanism's purpose during the…
- Yoshihiro Togashi here. I'm back doing a weekly serial, and here I am publishing my first volume already. Thanks to all my readers for their…
- Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili. A close reading…
- Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon. Put this trilogy…
- For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement…
- Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt…
- I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had…
- My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.
- Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the…
- There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in…
- Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and…
- Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration…
- William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any…
- If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning…
More Reader Quotes
- 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 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
- 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
- All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond