Best reader & half Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?”

“Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess. A half-good sex scene is not half as hot; it actually moves into the negative numbers, draining any heat from the surrounding material.”

Giving Whole Moving Sex Numbers Half Materials Reader Scene Negative Hot Mess Cute Heat Bloody Kitten Draining Good Sex

Author:Sandra Newman

“Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.”

Book Reading Process Sleep Half Struggle Reader Exercise Highest Assumption

Book:Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed

Source: Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed

“There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.”

Men Should Heart Book Matter Easy Hours Secret Half Company Written Reader Intelligent Lays Critics Conviction Every Man Impression Sufficient Unfinished Reviewers

Book:In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

Source: In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers

“The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.”

Beautiful Certain Half Style Reader Visible Hidden Meaning Hidden Beauty

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers.”

Book Half Reader Scare Equations

Author:Stephen Hawking

“There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.”

Long Important Actors Bits Half Five One Thing Months Reader Starting Very Good Preparation Useless Revolutionary Wrapping

Author:Kate Winslet

“Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.”

“The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.”

Book Half Reader Other Half

Author:Lois Lowry

“A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.”

Ifs Feels Wells Book Would Be Half Imagine Reader Sticks Description Plight

Author:Jesse Ball

“A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it.”

Feels Book Shows Asks Hours Attention Half Television Reader Discipline Tweet Television Shows Half Hours Really Deep

Author:Ben H. Winters

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