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.
John Ruskin
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Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Randy K. Milholland
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.
Norman Cousins
I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.
Carolyn Jones
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
John Scott
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman
I've been a huge Family Guy fan since the show first premiered, after the Super Bowl in 1999. I'm beyond excited that DDP nabbed the Family Guy license. Not only is just about every comic book reader already a huge fan, but so many people outside of comics are as well.
Josh Blaylock
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
Mary Mccarthy
I welcome the competition. It makes you sharper and better. I don't take any reader for granted.
Tim Franklin
The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.
Morris Hite
Nabokov manipulates the reader into really experiencing this wild desire, and you forget that [Humbert Humbert] is lusting after young girls. After finishing the novel, I felt like I'd just eaten an entire box of candy.
Ashley Morrison
History shows he is one of the best players in the competition ... but I am no crystal ball reader.
John Worsfold
We had suspicions when she was about 3 months old. Then, we watched our pediatrician write, 'Blind' and circle it on her chart. We knew from there she would be a Braille reader.
Jay Seaton
What I have always believed in 40 years of experience in the book publishing industry is that you can do what you want as a writer as long as you tell the reader what you are doing. Art is about honesty. My objection is not the use of memoir as literature it certainly can be. My objection is to the lack of honesty.
Peter Osnos
I am a daily reader of the Centre Daily Times online every day from the beautiful island of Maui.
Ann Wilson
I should love to do a novel... about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.
Patricia Highsmith
In a letter to "Dear Abby" a reader complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood. Her suggestion - 'You could move.'
Abigail Van Buren
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It doesn't make sense to see international condemnation if you can't, as a reader, see the very fundamentals of the controversy.
Acton Gorton
It's not an easy book. The book challenges the young reader to see the modern world in light of the lessons of the past.
Michael Class
If you think about a 5-year-old that wants to play Reader Rabbit and they have to sit though an install process, it shouldn't be like that.
Chris Donahue
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
The Detroit Tigers Reader.
Grantland Rice
He doesn't highlight the things he thinks is fact and the things he thinks is fiction, so the reader hasn't any way of knowing.
Mike Stevens
It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
Mary Ritter Beard
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
Paul Auster
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Leo Rosten
[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .
Shirley Jackson
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George F. Kennan
I'm no advertising genius. I found that if you deliver news and information to the consumer, or the reader, then the advertisers will follow to reach those readers.
Al Neuharth
You need to be a reader to be a smart consumer and an intelligent citizen. To help boys, we need to realize they have a different take on reading.
Jon Scieszka
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader, ... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
Garry Trudeau
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with.
Lawrence Clark Powell
San Francisco is a classic bike town, and it is beloved by everybody. In our online reader poll, more readers chose San Francisco than any other city but Portland. There is a culture of cycling ? there are bike clubs, there's the messenger culture and there are long-standing community activities centered around cycling.
Loren Mooney
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library: Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, Red Fairy Book, and so on, probably down to the Puce or Chartreuse fairy tales.
Beverly Cleary
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
Sidney Sheldon
The reader should expect and demand even more of a short story than of a novel. It should draw us in very quickly indeed.
Michel Faber
Gentle reader: Yes, the thing to do is to ignore it. A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.
Judith Martin
It's a combination of convenience and security. Typically, when you add security to a system, it makes the system harder to use. The Toshiba fingerprint reader ... improves the security of the system, [and] also makes it easier to use.
Mike Chaudoin
The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
Campbell Scott
It is blatantly obvious to even the most casual reader that Islamic terrorists have been, and continue to, cross the porous U.S./Mexico border into the United States.
Randy Mckinney
PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
Ambrose Bierce
[Us Weekly considers its core reader to be the] cool girl ... has the right outfits first and had all the information first.
Janice Min
Narrators of first-person claptrap like this often greet the reader at the door with moist hugs and complaisant kisses. I won't. I will not endear myself.
Judith Moore
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust
I have not got one call from a subscriber or a reader who complained about that ad. Not one letter or e-mail.
Catherine Kelly
The program is designed to collect and process green waste only, but your reader is correct that paper is compost-able as well.
Suzanne Jones
The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life.
Jim Bishop
He was a good people reader, and Murphy was smart. He knew the tricks of the trade.
Marshall Carlisle
The reader empowers customers, who otherwise would lose track of how much money was stored in the card.
Carl Fischer
The ads that they monitor have moved from The Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Tribune and The Chicago Reader. Now they happen to be read by people online instead of in something that can be held in your hands.
Stephen Libowsky
Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.
William H. Gass
The purpose of the newsletter is to supply the reader with a reliable supply of seeds made up of proven motivational ideas and strategies that can be immediately put to use.
Bob Garner
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Thomas Carlyle
The storm clouds had been building. Mr. Klein is a great reader of the political signs and he must have known in his heart it was time to go. He has a chance to go out on his own steam or be pushed out.
David Taras
Caroline is a voracious reader. She loves to read. If I was going to make a movie, I'd ask Caroline to read it first.
Jane Thorne
Second-guessing editors. They're obliged to be responsive to their individual communities, and I'm not the one who has to deal directly with reader blow-back.
Garry Trudeau
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.
Brian Crozier
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.
Robert Vaughan
It's very important for me to maintain contact with the reader, because I'm writing to someone, and I'm desperately eager to achieve believability.
Will Eisner
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
Ken Follet
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
[For the speedy reader] paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
William H. Gass
Will the reader turn the page?
Catherine Drinker Bowen
We want to get people used to tapping their card at the reader so they don't miss the read range.
Mark Kroncke
We are pleased that we have engaged the American reader in the voting process for a significant book award. We look forward to growing the Quills in the years to come.
Gerry Byrne
We certainly like to believe that as rich media is being consumed more on these devices ... that both Flash and Reader become essential part of these devices ... We are vigilant to make it happen.
Shantanu Narayen
I've got to admit, it's one of the most fun parts of my job. We laugh our butts off when we do them. They are over-the-top, but the reader knows they're hyperbolic.
Kate White
The reader should come away convinced from this thesis that you actually did learn something.
Richard Brooks
I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.
Mary Grandpre
We try not to be all things to all women. You'll never find anything about babies in our magazine, except what a single reader might be interested in.
Kate White
Our surveillance team set up and watched this particular group install a card reader and a camera on the ATM machine.
Bryan Adams
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
Elizabeth George
Briefs must comply with a lot of specifics. I helped out with a recent effort to check citations and make sure the cases we cited haven't been overturned in the past few months, and that it was reader-friendly.
Elizabeth Farry
The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine.
Edward Bok
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