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Readers Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking…
- Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only…
- Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.
- But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,…
- Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.
More Readers Quotes
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- For people who are readers, reading is important to them. — Jeff Bezos
- A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is… — Augustine Birrell
- While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their… — Elayne Boosler
- If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy.… — Ray Bradbury
- 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 didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves… — Terry Brooks
- So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an… — Lee Child