The very best way I can make any reader believe in the…

To know the mechanics of the wave, is to know the entire secret of Nature.

— Walter Russell

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that the poet…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Reader, do you believe that there is such a thing as happily ever after? Or, like Despereaux, have you, too, begun to question the…

— Kate DiCamillo

I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a…

— Anonymous

“Any writer must find it difficult to assess her own work honestly and objectively, so I can only say that I hope my books…

— Margaret Maddocks

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

— Nikki Giovanni

I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.

— Dave Freudenthal

“The grossest offenders are in the field of, in connection with, in order to, in respect of, so far as… is concerned. All sorts…

— Harold Evans

I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

— John Lithgow

If Vin Scully calling a game is just as good in 2013 as he was in 1963, that's the way a game should sound.…

— Bob Costas

The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is the fact…

— Simon Pegg

Audiences are very sophisticated and they know the nuts and bolts of the genre - certainly with horror more than others I think. But…

— Reece Shearsmith

[The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and…

— Vince Kehres