Your Reader Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

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
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
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
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
Your reader is at least as bright as you are — William Maxwell
Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader. — Robert Collier
Itâ€™s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your readerâ€™s imagination when youâ€™re telegraphing your punches. — Don Roff
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. Thatâ€™s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being… — Po Bronson
Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start — Horace
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. — Paul Gallico
Your protagonist is your readerâ€™s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world youâ€™re… — Janet Fitch
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
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! — Anne McCaffrey
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. — W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
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
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
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
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: