Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to…

— Julian Barnes

The order of things consents to virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never knew a writer yet whotook the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

Of all needs a book has, the chief need is to be readable.

— Anthony Trollope

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

— Bertrand Russell

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

“Printed books are dirt cheap, never run out of power and survive drops, spills and being run over. And their file format will still…

— David Pogue

Type should be beautiful — Screw readable!

— Ed Benguiat

Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable.

— Maurizio Cattelan

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

— E. M. Forster

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

— Rae Armantrout

“Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.”

— Anthony Trollope