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I'm an avid biography reader.
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Brent Spiner
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Born:
Feb 2
,
1949
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The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'
Thomas Sowell
Man
Vote
Rights
Old
Will
Giving
Politician
Has-Been
Some
About
Give
Moreover
He
French
French Fries
Him
Reader
How
Fish
Been
His
Versus
Fries
Updated
Wants
Old Adage
Declare
Ask
Teaching
Who
Among
Basic
Things
Sauce
Adage
Basic Rights
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.
Margaret Atwood
Good
You
Evoke
Evoking
About
Something
Writers
Between
Call
Reader
Clinical
Up
Quite
Difference
Describe
Describing
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
Maya Angelou
Work
Myself
Fool
Liar
Hypocrite
Will
Pay
Say
Those
Would
Would-Be
I Write
Seem
Write
Reader
Dues
Hears
Any
Going
Behind
Really
Who
Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Caitlyn Jenner
Life
Work
Hard Work
You
Sports
Life Is Hard
Better
Everything
Way
Easily
Would
Easy
Never
Had
Come
Reader
Been
Up
Get
Frustrating
Realized
Then
Hard
Growing
Growing Up
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
E. L. Doctorow
Good
Writing
Feeling
Evoke
Fact
Good Writing
Supposed
Reader
Sensation
Being
Rained
Raining
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
Writer
Written
Protect
Reader
Inform
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
Thoughts
Own
Strike
Fine
Poetry
Excess
Highest
Remembrance
Almost
Reader
Surprise
His
Singularity
Wording
Should
Appear
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman
Good
Great
Perception
Mellow
Though
Must
Great Literature
Some
Sharpen
Reader
Opinions
His
Dull
Discrimination
Personal
Blunt
Literature
Should
I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.
Philip Roth
Grace
Will
Beginning
Television
Computer
Computer Screen
Coup
Reader
Said
Screen
Movie
In The Beginning
Now
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.
Amish Tripathi
History
You
School Days
School
Engineering
Medicine
India
Voracious
Days
Reader
Always
Doing
Been
End
Up
Loved
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