Reader Quotes

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Above The Thunder is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find this remarkable debut… — Tony Ardizzone
The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer. — Gabriel Fackre
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its readerâ€™s head. — Christopher Logue
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they arenâ€™t distracted by the total lack of… — R. K. Milholland
Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician,… — Rafe Esquith
Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply… — Emil Ruder
Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with. — Heather Hart
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z.… — William Zinsser
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers… — Ken Follett
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. — Joyce Carol Oates
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see… — Kurt Vonnegut
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can… — Ernest Hemingway
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. — Jane Austen
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take… — Claude C. Hopkins
Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your… — Claude C. Hopkins
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They… — Claude C. Hopkins
The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something… — Claude C. Hopkins
One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty… — Scott Adams
I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. — Michael Chabon

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