Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders. — Jim Woodring
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration… — Horace
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the… — Hermann Hesse
I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them;… — Beth Richardson Gutcheon
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich… — Gail Anderson-Dargatz
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or… — John Ruskin
What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is… — Coleman Barks
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are… — Darrell Huff
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in. — E L Doctorow
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade… — Oliver Goldsmith
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days. — Edward Hoagland
I cherish my work and all of my readers. — Kris Carr
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. — John Green
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now… — Alberto Manguel
Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings… — William Safire
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was… — Jeffrey Bernard
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. — Ernest Dimnet
There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were. — Julian Barnes
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind… — Maxine Hong Kingston
Good readers make much out of little. — Irving Howe
It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny… — Jenny Lawson

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