Able Quote by Johann Georg Hamann

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects;…

— Samuel Johnson

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present…

— Julian Barnes

“The cognitively unsound concept of “close reading” Author”

— Terry Marselle

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings…

— Michel de Montaigne

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning…

— Arlo Guthrie

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to…

— Nicolas Chamfort

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Readers often feel they know an author because they’ve read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual…

— Cheryl St.John

“The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case already prepared by the lower…

— Novalis

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe