Books Quote by David Denby Download Open image “Entertaining the reader is a good function.” — David Denby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Entertaining Function Good fun Reader
I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read. — Avi Copy Share Image
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do. — David Denby Copy Share Image
“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by… — David Denby Copy Share Image
The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has. — David Denby Copy Share Image
Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than… — David Denby Copy Share Image
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. — David Denby Copy Share Image
“The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is that they… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River,… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It… — David Denby Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
