Books Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Littles Reader
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires. — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason.… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out… — John Caples Copy Share Image
“To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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
