Readers Quotes

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

  

  Ed McBain
  • Writing
  • Readers

• ... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Idea
  • Notebook
  • Reflected

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

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Books
  • China
  • Translation

• 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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