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• I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

  Leon Uris

  Book, Writing, Marine

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• I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

  Tom T. Hall

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• Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us with yet more that will likely be unfamiliar to most readers. But the real treat of the essays is how they will make Artificial Life researchers squirm as they recognize their own intellectual sleights of hand exposed for all to see. Those researchers and the Genesis Redux contributors are all ultimately interested in what it is that truly distinguishes us beings from other lumps of matter.

  Rodney Brooks

  Real, Philosophical, Hands

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• Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Lonely, Smart, Emotional

  "Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Book, Design

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• A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Beauty, Book, Together

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• I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Rehabilitation, Critics

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• Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book whats really at stake, but ultimately its not about them - its always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

  Andrew Gross

  Meaningful, Book, Issues

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• Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up our government and our leaders to clear-eyed analysis, unaffected by professional spinmeisters and agenda-pushers.

  Tony Auth

  Jobs, Independent, Reality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

  J. Patrick Lewis

  World, Always Believe, Ifs

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• I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

  Jeremy Brett

  Stories, Actors, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

  Sarah Schulman

  Writing, Gay, People

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• We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

  David Foster Wallace

  Ideas, Stories

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• Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

  Home, Special, Purpose

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• The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Writing, Eye

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.401

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• All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

  Jeanne Herry

  Education, Reading, Book

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• It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

  Greg Bear

  Thinking, Egalitarianism, People

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• From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beauty, Reading, Learning

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• An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

  Claud Cockburn

  Book, Opportunity, Giving

  Claud Cockburn (1960). “Crossing the Line: Being the Second Volume of Autobiography”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

  William H. Gass

  Reading, Gossip, Crowds

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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

  Reading, World, Dull

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.7, Vintage

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• The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Reading, Reform, Three

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.248, Library of Alexandria

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• For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

  Gloria Steinem

  Book, Reading, News

  "Valley of the Dolls doesn't have to stay relevant to be a camp classic" by Judy Berman, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2016.

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• There are only two kinds of Wodehouse readers, those who adore him and those who have never read him.

  Richard Usborne

  Reading, Two, Kind

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• Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

  Samuel Johnson

  Reading, Remember, Injury

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.319

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