Quotes of Reader - somelinesforyou

“ An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought. ”

- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“ 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

“ 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

“ The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. ”

- Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

“ Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. ”

- Harriet Martineau

“ 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

“ 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

“ Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ”

- Dean Acheson

“ PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ 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

“ One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ 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

“ Tis the good reader that makes the good book. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ 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

“ 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

“ Clear writers assume, with a pessimism born of experience, that whatever isn't plainly stated the reader will invariably misconstrue. ”

- John R. Trimble

“ Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. ”

- Harriet Martineau

“ 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

“ 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

“ A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach. ”

- Friedrich von Schlegel

“ 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

“ A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer. ”

- Dean Acheson

“ A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ 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

“ 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

“ Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. ”

- William Randolph Hearst

“ Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph — green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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