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“Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.”

Years Kind May Heaven Wish Wealth Industry Reader Thee Bless Health Wealth

Book:Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52

Source: Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52

“I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader's eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.”

Mean Littles Light Eye Wish Reader Pages Magazines Tape Arrangements Binding

Author:Kingsley Amis

“And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.”

Knows Believe Wish Reader Notion Obvious Foolish

Book:An Instance of the Fingerpost

Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost

“Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.”

Ifs Feels Heart I Can Two Desire Wish Goal Achieve Reader Ambition My Ambition

Author:James Oliver Curwood

“I wish my prose to be transparentI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.”

Want Writing Looks Would Be Wish Written Reader Goodness Prose Transparent Describing Want Him

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“Spirits...Ghosts...Angels...whichever yo wish to call them - Reader, they do exist. I've seem them all my life, but I've learned to say nothing. And for all you cynics out there, just remember, there is no proof either way. So I choose to believe. In my opinion, it's much the best option.”

Way Believe Seems Remember Spirit Wish Opinion Reader Angel Proof Ghost I've Learned

Author:Lucinda Riley

“Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys, it helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.”

People Thinking Giving Littles Character Helping Problem Reality Guy Wish Class Middle Events Reader Ordinary Average Middle Class Scenarios Main Characters Wilder

Author:Bentley Little

“The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.”

Hard Shows Wish Hard Work Reader Drawing Print Imaginative

Author:Matt Groening

“I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.”

May Wish Reader Add Incidents Wish You I Wish You Would

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions

“Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.”

Ifs Men World Found Wish Study Return Reader Miracle Delight Profession Occasions

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Most of promoting seems unnatural to me, and I wish I didn't have to do it. I'm not especially good at tooting my own horn. However, I do love to connect with readers. That's why I try to keep up with my social media even when I don't have a new book coming out.”

Trying Book Seems Wish Social My Own Media Reader Social Media Coming Out Promoting Horns Unnatural New Books

Author:Linda Conrad

“In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes.”

Long Character Running Wish Term Generations Havens Reader Please Series Endure Impressed Holmes

Author:Michael Koryta

“The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.”

Ifs Men Writing Wells Feelings Problem Would Be Age Today Wish Natural Religious Audience Reader Novelists Encounters Sentimental Sentimentality Credible Insurmountable

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.”

World Way Book Shows Certain Wish Reader Perception

Author:Robert Greene

“Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.”

Heart Wish Creation Reader Lovers Mere Definitions Satisfied Old Friends Sociable

Author:Lu Xun