Books Quote by Michael Finkel Download Open image “I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.” — Michael Finkel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Much Pretty Readers Which Worst Worst thing
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I tell my students all the time is, for better or worse, no publisher is going to come wrench your story out of your… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that “no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The first great literary work about solitude, the Tao Te Ching, was written in ancient China, likely in the sixth century B.C., by a… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.” — Michael Finkel 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
