#reader

Writers are storytellers. So are readers. ↗

— Oliver North

#storytellers #writers

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#book #books #dialogue #other #readers

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#awards #been #bringing #competitive #deserving

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#committed #disappointing #effort #form #good

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#down #flag #headline #kind #meat

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#attract #cent #editorial #like #look

I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#formats #haven #i #i think #made

That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#columns #editorial #expressed #freedom #given

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. ↗

— Ben Okri

#book #bring #creative #creative act #like

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. ↗

— Ben Okri

#absolutely #absolutely not #best #reader #us