Your Readers Quotes
39 quotes by 36 authors
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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
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Love your readers to death!
— Darren Rowse
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.
— C. E. M. Joad
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Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
— Ben Bova
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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
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If you’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
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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
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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
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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: