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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
View quotes by Marcel Proust
"A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns."
View quotes by P L Travers
Reader, I married him.
View quotes by Charlotte Bronte
Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.
View quotes by Leo Burnett
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
View quotes by Margaret Fuller
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
View quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
View quotes by Dean Acheson
The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.
View quotes by Francis X Clines
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
View quotes by Dick Schaap
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.
View quotes by Frederick Marryat
Gentle reader: Yes, the thing to do is to ignore it. A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable
View quotes by Judith Martin
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.
View quotes by Henry Miller
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
View quotes by Robertson Davies
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
View quotes by Cornelia Funke
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage
View quotes by John Le Carre
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
View quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
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.
View quotes by Edward Dahlberg
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
I am about to write a very curious history, as the reader will agree with me when he has read this book. We have more than one narrative of people being cast away upon desolate islands, and being left to their own resources, and no works are perhaps read with more interest; but I believe I am the first instance of a boy being left alone upon an uninhabited island. Such was, however, the case; and now I shall tell my own story
View quotes by Frederick Marryat
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