Readers Quotes
1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors
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Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated with them. The ancient prediction that Dzogchen…
— Tsultrim Allione
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When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in…
— Rowan Pelling
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It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses,…
— Maxine
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Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers…
— Katharine Weber
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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with…
— Norman Geisler
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While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush…
— David Talbot
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. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world,…
— Orson Scott Card
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Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers…
— Garry Trudeau
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
— Walter Jon Williams
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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is…
— Anne Stevenson
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There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust…
— Dan Simmons
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We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic…
— Garrison Keillor
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I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers.…
— Scott Adams
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For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer…
— D. A. Carson
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With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher…
— Josh Marshall
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Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
— Samuel Johnson
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In this article we begin to address the subject of vaccinosis, the general name for chronic dis-ease caused by vaccines. For some readers the very…
— Richard Pitcairn
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If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or…
— Lorrie Moore
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My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls... And I really think that worked out pretty well for…
— George R. R. Martin
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Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece…
— Eddie Redmayne
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The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.
— Toni Morrison
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The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver.
— Kiran Desai
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All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read…
— Stephenie Meyer
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When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have…
— Paul Weller
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