Books Quote by Jonathan Lethem

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.…

— Shelby Steele

I wish my prose to be transparent—I don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying…

— V. S. Naipaul

“...I look out at the world through your transparent face...”

— John Geddes

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving…

— Lucy Powell

“We never realise how transparent we are.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

Spending should be transparent. All spending by the Pentagon should be online. Every check. Exceptions should be made for legitimate national security issues. But…

— Grover Norquist

Large fish such as tuna are shown already cut into fillets and bought by the block. Fillets should be almost transparent. Avoid tuna that…

— Nobu Matsuhisa

“I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of…

— Emerson Ralph Waldo

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

— Bob Barr

The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to…

— Jamie Dimon

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is…

— Fulton J. Sheen