Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Women are books, and men the readers be."
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Reader
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David Carson
Graphic Designer
"Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them."
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"Show the readers everything, tell them nothing."
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"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."
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"Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer."
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"So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard."
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"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write."
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"There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people."
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"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
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"If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry."
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"It’s the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work."
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"The paper is patient, but the reader is not."
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"The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read."
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"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles."
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"Books belong to their readers."
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"Those who write clearly have readers."
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"If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding."
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"Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning."
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"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."
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"Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind."
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"Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible."
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"Reader, I married him."
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"The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers."
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