Reader Quotes - Page 28

• If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Book, May, Ifs

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• I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Teenager, Reading, Discovery

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• I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

  Andrew Greeley

  Writing, Responsibility, World

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• If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

  Pierre Bayle

  History, Weakness, Crime

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• Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.

  T. E. D. Klein

  Writing, Dumb, Events

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• 'Above The Thunder' is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find this remarkable debut novel not only irresistible but impossible to put down.

  Tony Ardizzone

  Beautiful, Wise, Book

  "'Above The Thunder' by Renee Manfredi", www.penguinrandomhouse.com. May 10, 2005.

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• The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

  Gabriel Fackre

  Christian, Source, Theology

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• Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer's task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.

  Emil Ruder

  Individual Work, Tasks, Matter

  Emil Ruder (2001). “Typographie”, Arthur Niggli

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• Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.

  Heather Hart

  Book, Doors, Marketing

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• Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Action, Emotion

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• Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Levels, May, Willing

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• "Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Expression, Etc

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• I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. ... I should advise the reader not to make up his mind on this point until he has well weighed two facts which nobody disputes, both separately and in connexion. First, logic is the only science which has made no progress since the revival of letters; secondly, logic is the only science which has produced no growth of symbols.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Two, Growth, Mind

  Augustus De Morgan (1860). “Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic”, p.72

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• I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lonely, Book, Writing

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• One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided what the result should be in any case by applying the given view itself, this would preclude discovering it did not correctly fit the case. Readers who hold they would plug in to the machine should notice whether their first impulse was not to do so, followed later by the thought that since only experiences could matter, the machine would be all right after all.

  Robert Nozick

  Views, Would Be, Machines

  Robert Nozick (1990). “Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

  Leah Price

  Book, Giants, Shoulders

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• The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Writing, Shoes

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• I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

  David McCullough

  Book, Today, Madness

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, People, Fiction

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• My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Book, Perfect

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• The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.

  Bienvenido Lumbera

  Lying, Book, Opportunity

  Bienvenido Lumbera (1984). “Revaluation: essays on Philippine literature, cinema, and popular culture”

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• A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a library...witho ut cost to the reader.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Mean, Eye

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Bed, Lightning

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

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• We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the clear and almost perfect thought.

  Roger Angell

  Reading, Book, Almost Perfect

  Roger Angell (2015). “This Old Man: All in Pieces”, p.20, Anchor

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• Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

  Avi Arad

  People, Aviation, Comic

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 10, 2004.

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