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Your Reader Quotes by William Maxwell
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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… — 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 thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is… — Charles de Lint
- Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call… — Nicola Morgan
- There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about… — Dorothy Parker
- By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only… — George Orwell
- It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader.… — Paul Gallico