Rebecca Mead
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I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or r... 
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books th... 
I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass the... 
Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of ... 
I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion -... 
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to... 
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I w... 
I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps t... 
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of th... 
I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to the... 
Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care,... 
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write the... 
Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a ... 
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou&#... 
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philo... 
It is true that many young people who wrongly, that is, simply with abandon and unsolitarily, feel t... 
The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer wr... 
By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemie... 
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws... 
A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt... 
While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners descr... 
Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their lit... 
American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of tha... 
I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone. 
Secret Notes:
Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves. 
A good reader has the power to move the world. 
I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to... 
America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep ... 
What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us... 
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see i... 
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the ... 
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their... 
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ... 
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is... 
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. 
All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of t... 
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re... 
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re... 
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own re... 
The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging cla... 
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own... 
[The dreamscape conversations on] Six Feet Under, ... with their own ideas about themselves and what... 
I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or inf... 
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in... 
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in ... 
Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the ... 
For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, ... 
Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pe... 
Warriors do not lower themselves to the standards of other people; they live independently according... 
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and famil... 
If readers recognized that he was an ass, unaware of his own stupidity, ''your work will be a triump... 
I’m turned on by women who are comfortable in their own skin; and I’m turned off by those who ar... 
From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their... 
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend ... 
More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power b... 
Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully b... 
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revoluti... 
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intellig... 
In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contend... 
Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken... 
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier ma... 
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m... 
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The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and ... 
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary. 
How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h... 
Being classy is my teenage rebellion. 
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of... 
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18... 
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make... 
Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the cou... 
'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in... 
Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they... 
I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio. 
An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger int... 
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes. 
I was one of those little girls who practiced signing autographs since I was 5 years old. 
The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me. 
Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. 