Attention Quote by John Caples

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Readers steal time to read.”

— Donalyn Miller

Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.

— Karin Slaughter

If you are careful about the content and writing style, readers will not feel that you are in a hurry.

— Ravi Subramanian

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

— David McCullough

Save the time of the reader, for it is valuable

— S. R. Ranganathan

Sometimes people won't even finish a piece that you wrote, because they've already decided what it is that you want to say, and generally…

— Louis Menand

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless…

— Arnold Bennett

A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you…

— Will Ferrell

There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly…

— Christopher Bollen

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

— Rick Riordan

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

— Lin Yutang