Reader famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
-- Aidan Chambers -
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 Manguel -
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
-- Alberto Manguel -
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 -
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 -
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 Pyper -
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
-- Anita Diament -
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 -
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 Jin -
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...
-- Barbara Pym -
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 -
Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?
-- Bruno Schulz -
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
-- C.D. Wright -
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 Flanagan -
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 -
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.
-- Cornelia Funke -
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 -
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 -
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 -
If we value all readers, we must value all reading.
-- Donalyn Miller -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 Freud -
the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.
-- Ethel Smyth -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.
-- H. M. Tomlinson -
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
-- Harriet Martineau -
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 -
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 -
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
-- Horace -
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
-- Horace Walpole -
Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.
-- Howard G. Hendricks -
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
-- Ian Frazier -
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
