(176 quotes found)
“He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time”
Charles Caleb Colton
“I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget”
William Lyon Phelps
“In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.”
W. H. Auden
“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”
Dean Acheson
“Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.”
Anthony Burgess
“Leaders are Readers”
Charles Jones
“There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.”
Dorothy Parker
“The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.”
David Ogilvy
