Your Reader Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!
— Nicola Morgan
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There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.
— Dorothy Parker
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By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader…
— George Orwell
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It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do…
— Paul Gallico
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Your reader is at least as bright as you are
— William Maxwell
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Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader.
— Robert Collier
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It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.
— Don Roff
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Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being…
— Po Bronson
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Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start
— Horace
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It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.
— Paul Gallico
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Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re…
— Janet Fitch
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Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.
— Esther Freud
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Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
— Anne McCaffrey
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible…
— John Ruskin
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,…
— Anne Lamott
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There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be…
— Dorothy Parker
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The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a…
— Charles de Lint
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The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether…
— Charles de Lint
Who Wrote These Your Reader Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Your Reader Quotes as follows: