Books Quote by James Joyce

Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all…

— Henry James

God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been…

— Dorothy Parker

We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific…

— Alain de Botton

Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.

— K. R. Narayanan

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

— Henry James

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

— Andrew Pyper

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

— Kevin J. Anderson

“Here's what an e-reader is. A battery operated slab, about a pound, one half-inch thick, perhaps an aluminum border, rubberized back, plastic, metal, silicon,…

— Bill Henderson

When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

— Tom Peters

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

— Wallace Shawn

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

— Roger Allam

Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another.…

— Arthur Miller