Books Quote by John Caples

As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly say it,…

— Will Schwalbe

Young children especially are receiving so much of the world through their ears and their eyes, particularly if they're pre-literate. So engaging them with…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

“Avoid pompous words and fancy phrases.”

— Robert W. Bly

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them…

— Aaron Belz

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down…

— Samuel Johnson

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

— Samuel Richardson

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

If you're making a statement just to poke, people can see that. If you're making it to say something genuinely, people can understand that…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Children close their ears to advice but open their eyes to example..

— Anonymous

“I can see why we need fellows who know how to light fires,” Bluth said. “But I don’t see why we need people to…

— Brandon Sanderson

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will…

— Alan Moore

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine…

— Neil Cavuto