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  • One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
  • Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
  • Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
  • The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
  • What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
  • I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
  • I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.
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  • Joseph Addison Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Robert Frost No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Billy Collins A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Dean Acheson A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • Arthur Koestler 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
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort 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.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Anatole Broyard Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Willa Cather Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Avi Arad At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Joseph Addison 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
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Augusten Burroughs Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
    Cosmography (1992)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Stephen King Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
    Faceboek (2013)
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Paul Auster Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Bob Mayer First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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