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"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)
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"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
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"Today a reader--tomorrow a leader." »W. Fusselman
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"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity." »Thomas Carlyle
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"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." »Dean Gooderham Acheson
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"The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath." »Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
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"If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"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
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"A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader’s mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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." »John Ruskin
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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." »John Ruskin
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"reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." »Mark Twain
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"I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what They never find him. And you know why they never find him It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Tis the good reader that makes the good book." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"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
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"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
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"I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander." »Isaac Asimov
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"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
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"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
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"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
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