Books Quote by Nigel Hamilton Download Open image “If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.” — Nigel Hamilton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Ifs Learning Reader Talking Talking to yourself
You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander. — Alec Sulkin Copy Share Image
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“(Of his first wife, Ekatarina, who had died of tuberculosis in 1907, a year after their marriage, Stalin had reportedly said: “With her died… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“More troubling still had been the sickening revelation, in April 1943, that more than twenty thousand Polish officers, police officers, and members of the… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Bearing a banner of American democracy, the United States was, in other words, on the move — producing planes, tanks, and matériel on a… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Secretary Hull was even more skeptical of de Gaulle than the President. He was equally opposed to the restoration of France’s colonial empire in… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The House of Savoy never finished a war on the same side it started, unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice,”… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It had been Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum — using a supposed West African proverb — that a successful leader should “speak softly and carry a… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Picasso (full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso)” — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The President had been told, in December 1942, that almost two million Jews had in all probability already been “liquidated” by Hitler’s SS troops.12… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“In his diary Bill Hassett recorded the sight of the venerable little Englishman standing at the top, “at just a sufficient height to accentuate… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“the combined heavy bombers of the RAF and USAAF attacking from airfields in Britain the northern German city of Hamburg — Operation Gomorrah. Employing… — Nigel Hamilton 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
