A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.”
“A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.”
“A reader can tell if a transcribed story is true because it must contains elements of joy, pain, goodness, and malevolent thoughts. In a true story, not everything fits precisely together; a fortuitous conspiracy of events does resolve all loose ends.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”
Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach
“A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.”
“A reader has always multiple views for a thing or situation, and this is the blessing of reading.”
“A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.”
Source: The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
“A reader [is] a time traveler.”
“A reader is a traveler who doesn't have to move while travelling!”
“A reader Is a writer.”
“A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.”
“A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.”
“A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.”
“A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published”
“A reader knows the mind of sacred souls.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.. the man who never reads only lives one.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“A Reader lives life (personal) within Life (social).”
“A reader lives many lives," James Harris said. "The person who doesn't was lives but one.”
Source: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
“A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.”
“A reader reads a book. If it’s a good book, he forgets himself. That’s all a book has to do. When the reader can’t forget himself and keeps having to think about the writer the whole time, the book is a failure. That has nothing to do with fun. If it’s fun you’re after, buy a ticket for a roller coaster.”
Source: Dear Mr. M
“A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.”
“A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.”
“A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.”
“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness.”
Source: भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]
“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness. So there is a possibility that the poems are received and understood differently when they enter into readers’ sphere.”
“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
Source: Anatomy of Criticism
“A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.”
Source: Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
“A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.”
“A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.”
“A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.”
“A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.”
“A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.”
“A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.”
“A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life
“A reading can be a sad story or a beautiful story, it will heal if you end it with hope.”
“A reading family practices activities pertaining to reading on a daily basis. In such an atmosphere, children would see, wherever they turn their heads, a father holding a book, a brother sketching something, or a mother explicating some obscure notion to their siblings.”
Source: A Child Reads
“A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.”
Source: The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979
“A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.”
“A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.”
Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
“A ready person never needs to get ready.”
Source: Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call
“A ready smile concealed a firm mind.”
“A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.”
Source: Beware of Parents: A Bachelor's Book for Children
“A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.”
“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.”
“A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.”
“A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?”
Source: The arts and their mission
“A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.”
“A real Bond girl wears so many skill hats...costumes are more like casual-chic code!”