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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»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
habitually, lap, page, popular, reader, slack, slacked, slacking, strain, whatsoever, write off
«The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works»
«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.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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Literature,
Writing
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affect, difficulty, literature, precisely, reader
«The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.»
«The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
dragons, fallacies, fallacy, fiery, interpose, interposed, interposing, librarian, librarians, Libraries, manage, public libraries, public library, public servant, reader, servants, the books, The Librarian, The Public Interest
«The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
errors, finished, instincts, like this, newspaper, party, party politics, reader, ruin, secure
«The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
communication, inevitably, initiate, initiated, initiating, mysteries, obscure, obscurest, perpetuation, reader, secondary, The Author
«The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
abroad, consummate, consummated, consummating, reader
«The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.»
«The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity»
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