Readers Quotes

• I tend toward an expansive sentence that has a cold surface and, visible underneath it, a magma of unbearable heat. I want readers to know from the first lines what they will have to deal with.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Deal
  • Readers

• Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Books
  • China
  • Translation

• Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

  

  Ed McBain
  • Writing
  • Readers

• Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Identity
  • Fail
  • Construction

• The wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Society
  • Science
  • Readers

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