About Quote by Elizabeth Berg

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones…

— Alice Walker

“Being selective is self-protective.”

— David Posen

The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“Do you care about your image?' Even as the words were coming out of my mouth, I was mentally kicking myself. He'd been kidding…

— Jennifer Sturman

“If you've just left a place of difficulty, don't then move into the shadows, alone with your thoughts. Spend your time with friends, or…

— Sally Hanan

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the…

— Po Bronson

I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking…

— William H. Gass

In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in…

— Jeffery Deaver

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love…

— Eleanor Catton

I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like this! But…

— John Brandon

Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be…

— Anne Bernays