A Quote by Julian Barnes

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable.

Julian Barnes

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Julian Barnes
English - Writer
Born: January 19, 1946

The virtue of books is to be readable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

Nicholson Baker

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

Anthony Trollope

Type should be beautiful — Screw readable!

Ed Benguiat

...More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.

John Hospers

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

Bertrand Russell

The aim of the Constitutional Treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable ... The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this Treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.

Karel De Gucht

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

Larry Wall

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

Rae Armantrout

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

E. M. Forster

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

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

Adrian Tomine

[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities, especially in his diary, which is one of the greatest and most readable in all of American literature.

Gordon S. Wood

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

Larry Wall

The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable.

Saul Bass

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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