quotes about Reader
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.
-- A.A. Attanasio -
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
-- Aidan ChambersSource : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
-- Aidan ChambersSource : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
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If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
-- Alberto ManguelSource : Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.36, Penguin
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The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
-- Alberto Manguel -
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A book brings its own history to the reader.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.
-- Alberto Manguel -
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It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
If you would be a writer, first be a reader
-- Allan W. Eckert -
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
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I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.
-- Amy Krouse Rosenthal -
To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
-- Andrew PyperSource : Andrew Pyper (2013). “The Demonologist: A Novel”, p.290, Simon and Schuster
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
-- Anita Diament -
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the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
-- Anna Quindlen -
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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Along with responsible newspapers we must have responsible readers.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
-- Ba JinSource : "Chinese Modern Literature Laureate Expected to Become Centenarian". en.people.cn. August 13, 2001.
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She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...
-- Barbara PymSource : Barbara Pym (2015). “Quartet in Autumn: Picador Classic”, p.8, Pan Macmillan
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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
-- Ben Okri -
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
-- Bharati Mukherjee -
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Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?
-- Bruno SchulzSource : Bruno Schulz (2011). “The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass”, p.101, Pan Macmillan
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Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
-- C.D. WrightSource : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.92, Copper Canyon Press
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
-- Caitlin FlanaganSource : "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
-- Charles Kuralt -
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
-- Christopher Logue -
Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader
-- Claude C. Hopkins -
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A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
-- Cornelia FunkeSource : "Inkdeath". Book by Cornelia Funke, www.seventeen.com. 2007.
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!
-- D. J. MacHale -
I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
-- Dakota Blue Richards -
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
-- Daniel Clowes -
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.
-- Dave Gibbons -
I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
-- David Nicholls -
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The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
-- Davy Jones -
Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.
-- Denise Mina -
And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers?
-- Djuna Barnes -
I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.
-- Donald Ray Pollock -
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If we value all readers, we must value all reading.
-- Donalyn MillerSource : Donalyn Miller, Susan Kelley (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.171, John Wiley & Sons
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Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.
-- Douglas Hofstadter -
You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.
-- Dr. Seuss -
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
-- E. B. White -
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
-- Ed McBain -
There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
-- Edward Hirsch -
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
-- Elizabeth Kostova -
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I try to leave out the parts readers skip.
-- Elmore Leonard -
I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.
-- Elmore Leonard -
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
-- Elmore Leonard -
A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.
-- Eric Hoffer -
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Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.
-- Erik Spiekermann -
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.
-- Esther FreudSource : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.
-- Ethel SmythSource : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
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Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him.
-- Friedrich Schleiermacher -
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
-- Garry Disher -
Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.
-- Gary D. Schmidt -
I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.
-- Geoffrey Rush -
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..
-- George R. R. Martin -
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Maybe you have billions of dollars and my Hugo, but you don't have readers like these.
-- George R. R. Martin -
I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.
-- George Sarton -
I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.
-- Grant Morrison -
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
-- Greg van Eekhout -
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The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.
-- H. M. Tomlinson -
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
-- Harriet MartineauSource : Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.176
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Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.
-- Harry S. Truman -
I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
-- Helen Dunmore -
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I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.
-- Helen Dunmore -
I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
-- Henning Mankell -
The better the book the more room for the reader.
-- Holbrook Jackson -
I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.
-- Honor Blackman -
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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
-- Horace WalpoleSource : Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). “The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford”, p.494
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Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
-- Ian Frazier -
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
-- Ilya Ehrenburg -
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
-- Iris Johansen -
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written
-- Irwin Shaw -
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.
-- Isaac Asimov -