Books Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in…

— Robert Stone

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

— Elmore Leonard

“If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a…

— Baby Halder

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and…

— E. B. White

Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.

— Anne Clark

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

— Henry Miller

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“In another surprise, when letters are omitted from words in a text, requiring the reader to supply them, reading is slowed, and retention improves.”

— Peter C. Brown

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

“Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an entire paragraph…

— Christopher T. Garry

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

— S. E. Hinton