“ Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity — it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ”
- John Hersey- Copy
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“ Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years. ”
- Tom Lehrer- Copy
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“ It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. ”
- John Mason Brown- Copy
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“ I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further. ”
- Malcolm Lowry- Copy
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“ A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader. ”
- Dean Acheson- Copy
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“ Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader. ”
- Stan Lee- Copy
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“ It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters. ”
- Peter Benenson- Copy
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“ She was a very funny writer but also a very thoughtful one. She made writers think and she made readers think. She was constantly playing on the difference between God and the writer. ”
- David Lodge- Copy
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“ There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. ”
- Carl Barks- Copy
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“ You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story-a beginning, a middle, and an end. ”
- Len Wein- Copy
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“ You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge. ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual. ”
- Gary North- Copy
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“ The left and the right can do the same thing. The Net can do the same thing for racists as it did for the Dean campaign. Treating your readers not as readers but as participants is a really good way of creating community and getting supporters. ”
- David Weinberger- Copy
- 1.9K
“ When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged in a book. Like, they didn't know what the inside of a book looked like, you know what I mean? ”
- David Sedaris- Copy
- 2.6K
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