“ Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. ”
- William H. Gass- Copy
- 128
“ I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. ”
- Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 4K
“ Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ”
- Dean Acheson- Copy
- 479
“ PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1K
“ Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
- 29
“ We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way. ”
- Steven King- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing. ”
- Randal Keith Milholland- Copy
- 267
“ Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue. ”
- John R. Trimble- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ”
- Malcolm Bradbury- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. ”
- Friedrich von Schlegel- Copy
- 817
“ A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 936
“ A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. ”
- Dean Acheson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 2.3K
“ As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 3K
“ Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. ”
- William Randolph Hearst- Copy
- 3K
“ Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph — green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 1.3K
“ He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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