Readers Quotes

1021 Readers quotes by 739 unique authors

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the… — Mark Twain
How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers. — Edwin Way Teale
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. — Harriet Martineau
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However… — Mark Twain
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What… — Anton Chekhov
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. — Jerome K. Jerome
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar… — Samuel Johnson
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and… — Albert Einstein
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely. — Natalie Babbitt
Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it… — John Templeton
God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know;… — Evariste Galois
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some… — Immanuel Kant
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native… — Jean de la Bruyere
Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines… — Sara Paretsky
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. — Jim Woodring
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
Love your readers to death! — Darren Rowse
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry. — James J. Kilpatrick
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? — Brian Aldiss
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the… — Ben Bova
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write… — Harlan Ellison

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