Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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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.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works
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The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own
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Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible
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For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
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Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.
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If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary
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While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time
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Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention
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Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledged - desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend.
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I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.
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Will the reader turn the page?
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I have not got one call from a subscriber or a reader who complained about that ad. Not one letter or e-mail.
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I am thrilled to be part of the Lambda team as the Foundation enters its second decade,.. I value the work of Lambda and welcome its goal of being a complete service organization for the entire GLBTQ literary community-authors, editors, booksellers, educators, librarians, and especially, the GLBTQ reader.
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(The Michigan district) used it as an all-school reader,.. Sophomores, juniors and seniors were reading it and discussing it and discussing it in different disciplines, and I was getting some amazing e-mails back from kids and teachers.
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