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“Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.”

Ifs Two Enough Age Three Class Produce Reader Critics Here And There Esoteric

Book:The Works of Thomas De Quincey,

Source: The Works of Thomas De Quincey,

“Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.”

People Thinking Way Writing Mean Use Feelings Certain Attitude Seeing Influence Subjects Style Produce Reader Determination Atmosphere

Author:Randall Jarrell

“The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.”

Produce Reader Aim Editors Scholarly

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.”

“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.”

Written Heard Produce Reader Excuse Profession Listeners Idleness

Book:Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny

Source: Letters and Panegyricus [of] Pliny

“It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.”

Opinion Produce Reader Obvious Newspapers

Author:Umberto Eco

“But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.”

Thinking Giving Art Stories Moving Energy Produce Reader Exciting Not Sure Short Story Minors Thrill Great Art Amusing Rapture

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might be plunged into the truths of the Holy Scripture, and that from this he might receive warmth, which in solitude produces tears; from these a man is wholly warmed and is filled with spiritual gifts, which rejoice the mind and heart more than any word.”

Men Should Mind Heart Whole Might Spiritual Order Reading Produce Tears Reader Holy Solitude Filled Scripture Warmth Word Of God Rejoice Heart And Mind Holy Scriptures Spiritual Gifts

Author:Seraphim of Sarov

“Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't want to challenge their readers; they want to produce exactly what their reader expects them to produce. I'm not like that.”

Want Mind Kind Challenges Produce Reader

Author:Sarnath Banerjee