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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.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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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.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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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.
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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
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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.
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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.
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Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
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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.
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At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
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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.
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Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
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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.
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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
Cosmography (1992)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
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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.
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First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
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