Books Quote by Joseph J. Ellis Download Open image “I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.” — Joseph J. Ellis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Reader Trust
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person. — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers? — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust. — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
I'm so very grateful to the readers who put down their hard-earned money to read what I write. They don't have to do that.… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust by revealing… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, in that eerily instinctive way in which he always grasped the difference between the essential and the peripheral, he literally felt in his… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“Upon learning that Washington intended to reject the mantle of emperor, no less an authority than George III allegedly observed, “If he does that,… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which presidential leadership… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“p. 274 ...his trademark decision to surrender power as commander in chief and then president, was not...a sign that he had conquered his ambitions,… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“They recognized from the beginning that they were a rare match. There were so many topics they could talk about easily and just as… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“The first symptom of the trouble appeared when Madison studied Hamilton’s proposal for the funding of the domestic debt. On the one hand, Hamilton’s… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton's incredibly energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“One of the petitioners, an infamous do-gooder of uncertain sanity named Warner Mifflin, had actually acknowledged that his antislavery vision came to him after… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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