A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.
– Gerard de Marigny
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- To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions … and faith, the bravest of convictions. – Gerard de Marigny
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- Joseph moved to prove his sincerity in his vision-they moved ahead to invalidate his sincerity and what they think is his imaginative illusion. – Ikechukwu Joseph
- Vampires moved with inhuman grace – the fae moved as if life were a dance, and only they knew the steps. – SJ Himes
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- Tragic as it is when a child fails to develop physically or mentally, even more tragic is a Christian who fails to develop spiritually. – Billy Graham
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- When all else fails, there is music. When that fails you, there is beer. – James Hauenstein
- your lack of hard work fails your destiny and not the destiny fails you. – irrfan ishaq
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- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
- A writer’s uniqueness glows and transforms the heart and the soul of a reader. – AD Posey
- Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer. – Pawan Mishra
- The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Thomas Wolfe
- A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader’s mind. – Debasish Mridha
- Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. – Verlyn Klinkenborg
- Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them. – Maria Stoica
- The best tool in a writer’s arsenal is a reader’s imagination. – Tim Campbell
- The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning. – Marty Rubin
- She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments. – David Benioff
- A writer’s partner should be a good reader…otherwise she/he will get bored what’s happening around. – Vikash Shrivastava
- The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader. – Jenim Dibie
- I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for. – Christos Tsiolkas
- A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Any change that shortens the path between a writer and reader is a win for the book world. – KJ Kilton
- How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader? – Joshua Cohen
- A good writer is an excellent reader. – Cyci Cade
- A writer’s job is done once the lines touch reader’s forbidden chords. – Shreya Gupta
- What a writer brought to a book didn’t matter as much as what the reader contributed. – Lisa Morton
- As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness. – Gloria D Gonsalves
- I don’t think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you’re a passionate reader, AND read passionately. – Michelle D Kwasney
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