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Reader Quotes

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Women are books, and men the readers be.
Benjamin Franklin

'Females are volumes, and males the perusers shall be.'
Authors on Reader Quotes: Alberto Manguel Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Hirsch C. S. Lewis Elmore Leonard Mason Cooley Karen Thompson Walker W. H. Auden Martin Amis Isaac Bashevis Singer Kurt Vonnegut Amos Bronson Alcott Zadie Smith Helen Dunmore Arthur Conan Doyle Seamus Heaney David Ogilvy Anna Quindlen W. Somerset Maugham Lynne Tillman Aleksandar Hemon John Green William Maxwell Marco Arment E. B. White Julian Barnes Aidan Chambers Walter Benjamin Joan Didion Charlotte Bronte S. R. Ranganathan Vladimir Nabokov Akhil Sharma
2.
I hope to offend every reader.
Milo Yiannopoulos

I anticipate provoking every reader.
3.
Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.
David Carson

Entice the reader to engage by decoding. Disorder can fascinate and captivate.
4.
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.
Rumi

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.
William Randolph Hearst

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Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.
Jan Tschichold

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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
Edgar Allan Poe

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Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it
Nella Larsen

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Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
Ken Follett

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Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.
Jean Craighead George

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There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Stephen Ambrose

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I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.
Richard Armitage

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I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.
Kelly Gallagher

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Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.
Ernest Hemingway

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Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader.
S. R. Ranganathan

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Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
Verlyn Klinkenborg

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Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.
Erik Spiekermann

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But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.
Jim Trelease

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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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I'm an avid biography reader.
Brent Spiner

22.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Naguib Mahfouz

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Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.
Douglas Hofstadter

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Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable
S. R. Ranganathan

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I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
James Ellroy

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Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
Zadie Smith

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So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.
Pliny the Younger

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By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
W. G. Sebald

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Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.
Harry S. Truman

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I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Mason Cooley

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I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.
John Petrucci

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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
Epictetus

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You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!
Dr. Seuss

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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.
Margaret Atwood

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Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.
Howard G. Hendricks

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Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
Christopher Logue

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There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.
Pascal Mercier

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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
Horace Walpole

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Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.
Marie de Gournay

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My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.
Barry Lane

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Your reader is at least as bright as you are
William Maxwell

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Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
Richard Peck

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I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
Terri Windling

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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
Barbara Tuchman

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Better readers are better thinkers.
James Patterson

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A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.
Louise Rosenblatt

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The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.
Robert Bly

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In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
Walter Benjamin

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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott