Books Quote by John Ciardi Download Open image “The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.” — John Ciardi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Deserve Honest Honest Opinion Opinion Reader
The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own honest, unique… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural… — Amado Nervo Copy Share Image
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch are intimately… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“There was a young lady from Gloucester Who complained that her parents both bossed her, So she ran off to Maine. Did her parents… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like. — John Ciardi 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
