Early Readers Quotes

#1. The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done with my picture books. It's really rewarding to think that they can grow up reading my books at all the different levels.

Grace Lin

#2. Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili. A close reading of the text reveals it cannot sustain such an expansive geography.

Richard Bushman

#3. Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

Henry Stevens

#4. Don't worry, Miss Brielle. To be honest, the ones with a little bit of crazy have always been my favorite.

C.J. Milbrandt

#5. Zane was pretty sure that worries and bossing were related, like a pair of old aunties.

C.J. Milbrandt

#6. The aim I have set before me in this book is to give back to English readers the understanding of and delight in this great poet which thrilled his contemporaries and early successors.

Janet Spens

#7. I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.

John Joseph Griffin

#8. We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

George S. Clason

#9. The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and
to add insult to injury
at a profit.

The Invisible Committee

#10. There is something nice about a library, isn't there?" Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. "The scent of ink and worn, dusty pages.

Ilana Waters

#11. He had fallen in love with her emotions, and that was a very profound feeling indeed.

Francois Lelord

#12. Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace

Amanda M. Thrasher

#13. Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Saadi

#14. The Goblins were the foes of all, and at their coming all other quarrels were forgotten.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the radar and give cold comments. And at the early screenings of my movies, I'll hand out questionnaires that can be filled out anonymously so people can be brutally honest because, to your face, they won't be.

Catherine Hardwicke

#16. Christian culture has too often offered women a push toward contentment that can numb us to our own desires, without offering the tools to discern whether those desires could be good or Holy-Spirit-inspired.

Katelyn Beaty

#17. Face it, friends. For this journey, roads are optional.

C.J. Milbrandt

#18. My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

Rodman Philbrick

#19. Now you must practice to see something without allowing any thought to rise. Then you start sucking through your Spirit the beauty, the glory, the fragrance of a flower.

Nirmala Srivastava

#20. Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.

David Liss

#21. I want you to fuck me like you have a goddamn point to prove and you never, ever want me to forget it.

Kim Holden

#22. The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates.

Tony Buzan

#23. I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things.

Jonathan Dee

#24. Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.

Edmund White

#25. I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there's a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me.

Adrian Tomine

#26. Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.

C.J. Milbrandt

#27. Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.

Cathy Guisewite

#28. I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they look at my picture on the back of the book, they don't see someone who looks like their mother.

Julia Quinn

#29. Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

Larry McMurtry

#30. What is it men cannot be made to believe!

Thomas Jefferson

#31. Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was the only time I would write about these characters. I felt it gave me an added incentive to do my best by them, to tell readers everything I knew, to hold nothing back.

Betsy Byars

#32. Zane sighed. Jovan and Mother were just the same. "Maybe later" meant no.

C.J. Milbrandt

#33. They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.

C.J. Milbrandt

#34. I think we can get there, in 10 or 15 years. That will bring back manufacturing of certain high-energy intensive industries. It'll bring back jobs. It'll create a surprising economic revitalization of this country.

Mitt Romney

#35. The internet is great because of Netiquette we create. Participate and reciprocate.

David Chiles

#36. Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet?

C.J. Milbrandt