"Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read."

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Source : Jack Bickham (1997). “The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books

Jack Bickham

#Writing Quotes #Reader Quotes

“When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.”
“I'm Jewish... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say.”
“I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.”
“If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never find a better savings vehicle.”
“In my perfect world order, it is cold all the time. Everyone wears sweaters and drinks coffee. People don't speak to each other; they read the newspaper. There is no loud music, and cats are in charge.”

Source : Michael Showalter (2011). “Mr. Funny Pants”, p.117, Hachette UK
“This was what she neededâ€¦ the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.”
“You have to work with the ideas and give them a little push.”
“We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.”

Source : "Artur Davis Gives Speech At 2012 Republican Convention". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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