„The good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense—which sense I propose to develop in myself and in others whenever I have the chance (“Good Readers and Good Writers”, p. 3).“

— Vladimir Nabokov

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„I have that honour for him as to believe that he wrote good sense; and therefore take that sense to be his which is the best.“
— Isaac Newton
„Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.“
— Stephen King
„I said "writer," not "poet;" I did have some common sense.“
— Margaret Atwood