Top 44 Most Readable Quotes

#1. If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

Graham Joyce

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#2. A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now
LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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#3. Readability of code is now my first priority. It's more important than being fast, almost as important as being correct, but I think being readable is actually the most likely way of making it correct.

Peter Seibel

Most Readable Quotes #35585
#4. When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

Dana Priest

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#5. Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

Jimmy Wales

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#6. Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

Fred Saberhagen

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#7. I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Samuel Butler

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#8. I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

George Murray

Most Readable Quotes #89205
#9. Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

Barbara Tuchman

Most Readable Quotes #108245
#10. The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of the over five billion mobile phones on this planet, because they all have SMS built in. So we said it has to be within 160 characters, all the tweets.

Biz Stone

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#11. Highly readable, compelling analysis of America's current political crises

Craig Barnes

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#12. It's meant to be seen rolling so it should be big and readable. Wildstyles on trains didn't make much sense to me when I first started and they still don't today.

Ichabod

Most Readable Quotes #167152
#13. We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

Ron Lewis

Most Readable Quotes #168864
#14. Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a water-secure world. I heartily recommend his provocative, information-packed, and highly readable new book Unquenchable.

Maude Barlow

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#15. Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.

Craig Shaw Gardner

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#16. I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

Adrian Tomine

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#17. She was indeed the literature I thought she would be, on par with excellence and not-so-readable.

Kavipriya Moorthy

Most Readable Quotes #271644
#18. I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.

Sally Mann

Most Readable Quotes #278830
#19. It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound ... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying.

Michel Hazanavicius

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#20. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality.

George Orwell

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#21. Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle it, no matter how hard I work to keep everything readable. But again it's that balance I have to maintain between keeping it easy and keeping it real, and I know that I'll never please everyone.

Susanna Kearsley

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#22. Code, without tests, is not clean. No matter how elegant it is, no matter how readable and accessible, if it hath not tests, it be unclean. Dave

Robert C. Martin

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#23. Wallace, King and Sanders point out in Biology: The Science of Life (that rarest thing: a readable textbook),

Bill Bryson

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#24. Ben m'boy," Jubal said gently, "as a reporter you are hard-working and sometimes readable.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#25. I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful.

Ed Benguiat

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#26. The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.

Saul Bass

Most Readable Quotes #535432
#27. Readable, faithful, accurate-what more could you ask for in a modern translation of the Bible? GOD'S WORD Translation is a great version for enhancing your love for God's Word. I recommend it.

Ann Spangler

Most Readable Quotes #616266
#28. If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

Larry Wall

Most Readable Quotes #641736
#29. Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

E. M. Forster

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#30. Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.

Alan Weisman

Most Readable Quotes #684536
#31. Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

Charles Frazier

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#32. I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible.

Ingmar Bergman

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#33. The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.

Ellen Gallagher

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#34. Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth.

Gregory Crewdson

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#35. The virtue of books is to be readable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#36. Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

Herbert Bayer

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#37. Agatha Christie called her books 'yarns'. A good yarn is very readable.

Barbara Bothwell

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#38. Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure,

Debby Applegate

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#39. In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends ... Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story.

Darryl Pinckney

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#40. I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood comedy writer with a past success but with everything to prove.

Danny Wallace

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#41. Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable.

Anthony Trollope

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#42. The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.

James Patterson

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#43. The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

Mark Helprin

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#44. Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Larry Wall

Most Readable Quotes #1775947

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