Books Quote by Henry Green Download Open image “If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.” — Henry Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Careless Goes on Ifs Laughing Reader Reading
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
If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang 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
There is a big difference between he who reads just because he knows how to read and he who does understand what he reads. — Wagner T Matioli Copy Share Image
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man who reads at all, reads just as he eats, sleeps, and takes exercise, because he likes it; and that is probably the… — Arthur Christopher Benson Copy Share Image
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. — Henry Green Copy Share Image
After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now." — Henry Green Copy Share Image
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the… — Henry Green 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
