174 Quotations with Reader.
- 1. Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart: The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his ...
- 2. Harriet Martineau: Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
- 3. John Keats: Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike t ...
- 4. John Ruskin: Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sur ...
- 5. Mark Twain: Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. Bu ...
- 6. Dean Acheson: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by per ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenome ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following ...
- 14. Horace Walpole: Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
- 15. Marcel Proust: Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instru ...
- 16. Robert W. Shaunon: Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact ...
- 17. Fran Lebowitz: Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough ...
- 18. Henry W. Fowler: Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before bec ...
- 19. Amos Bronson Alcott: One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
- 20. Douglas Adams: We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice comp ...
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