#readers

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

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#approach #create #difficult #distance #forms

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#brought #failed #our #poems #readers

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#career #create #effect #great #great career

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#digital-age #ebooks #ereaders #fiction #kindle

The public wants work which flatters its illusions. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#artists #creativity #flattery #public #readers

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind. ↗

— Kage Baker

#readers #readers-and-writers #writers #death

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #famous-authors #famous-poets #literacy #national-poetry-month

I need to experience books, not just read them. ↗

— Lauren Morrill

#e-readers #reading #experience