Good Reader Quotes

I was a good reader of a rugby match. I could kick, too.

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.