Quotes with readers

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  • Anne Stevenson I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • William Lyon Phelps I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Jonathan Franzen I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.
    De correcties (2010)
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Anne Rice I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Gloria Steinem I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Seth Godin I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
    Seth Godin
    American author and business executive (1960 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • John Ruskin It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Umberto Eco It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.
    (2015)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bhagat Singh L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Avi Arad Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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