Quotes of Textbook - somelinesforyou

“ Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ”

- John Hersey

“ Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ Leaders are readers. ”

- Charles ‘Tremendous’ Jones

“ It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects. ”

- Joyce Maynard

“ The left and the right can do the same thing. The Net can do the same thing for racists as it did for the Dean campaign. Treating your readers not as readers but as participants is a really good way of creating community and getting supporters. ”

- David Weinberger

“ Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. ”

- Alan Dean Foster

“ Today a reader — tomorrow a leader. ”

- W. Fusselman

“ If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated. ”

- Frank F. Warren

“ Everyone is a reader.... Some just haven't found their book yet. ”

- Unknown

“ Reader, I married him. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. ”

- Len Wein

“ Hypocrite reader — my fellow — my brother! ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother! ”

- St. Jerome

“ A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. ”

- Robert Frost

“ I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone. ”

- John Cheever

“ Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. ”

- Jacques Derrida

“ I'm no advertising genius. I found that if you deliver news and information to the consumer, or the reader, then the advertisers will follow to reach those readers. ”

- Al Neuharth

“ Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ”

- Raoul Vaneigem

“ 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

“ I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. ”

- William Collins

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. ”

- Edith Hamilton

“ Experience has no textbooks nor proxies. She demands that her pupils answer to her roll-call personally. ”

- Minna Thomas Antrim

“ Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real. ”

- Tim Burton

“ Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than it is to earn it in the first place. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ If you wish to be a good reader — read. ”

- Epictetus
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