Reader Quotations | Page 7

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

a good reader makes a good book

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.