Quotations
Quotes:
"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
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
Under this stone, Reader, survey
Dead Sir John Vanbrugh's house of clay.
Lie heavy on him, Earth! for he
Laid many heavy loads on thee!
(Epitaph to Sir John Vanbrugh)
View quotes by Abel Evans
Reader, I married him.
View quotes by Charlotte Bronte
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
View quotes by Dean Acheson
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
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
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
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
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
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
View quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
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
The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.
View quotes by Francis X Clines
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
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
View quotes by Karl Menninger
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
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
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
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
View quotes by Cornelia Funke
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