Your Readers Quotes

39 quotes by 36 authors

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it… — John Templeton
Love your readers to death! — Darren Rowse
If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry. — James J. Kilpatrick
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 the… — Ben Bova
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write… — Harlan Ellison
Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice… — James J. Kilpatrick
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is… — Kurt Vonnegut
Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that… — William Zinsser
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a… — John F. Kennedy
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In… — Horace
Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are… — David Ogilvy
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works… — Wietse Venema
The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. — C. E. M. Joad
Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story. — Ben Bova
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself.… — Evelyn Waugh
If youâ€™re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful.… — Theodora Goss
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest… — Steven Heighton
It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better… — Ellen Lupton
Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with. — Heather Hart

Who Wrote These Your Readers Quotes

36 authors contributed a total of 39 Your Readers Quotes, led by these top contributors: