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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. – Willa Cather	added by anonymous 10 years ago
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. – Horace	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K. Le Guin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.""A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer." "Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.”“Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.” Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.” "The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask."If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, with no soul." “If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.”"It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.” – Anthony Liccione	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. – John Ruskin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way. – Steven King, The Stand	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. – Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880) – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper' – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. – Henry W. Fowler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Tis the good reader that makes the good book. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander. – Isaac Asimov	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. – Amos Bronson Alcott	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. – Robert Louis Stephenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. – John Keats	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. – Thomas Carlyle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. – Dean Gooderham Acheson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. – Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them. – John Ruskin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. – George Frost Kennan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Today a reader--tomorrow a leader. – W. Fusselman	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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