Admire Quote by Ben Bova Download Open image “Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.” — Ben Bova ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admire Asks Believe Books Reader Stories Want Writing
When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord. — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of… — Vinko Vrbanic Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share
“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Omni is not a science magazine. It is a magazine about the future...Omni was sui generis. Although there were plenty of science magazines over… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
“The art of fiction has not changed much since prehistoric times. The formula for telling a powerful story has remained the same: create a… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Up here [in space], you're free. Really free, for the first time in your life. All the laws and rules and prejudices they've been… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
“A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.” — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
“When we do this thing, we admit failure. We admit fear—yes, terror. We are terrified of a new idea, a new scientific discovery. The… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God. — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams? — Johanna Konta Copy Share Image
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself...… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
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