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«I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.»
«Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.»
Author: John Hersey | About: Journalism | Keywords: allows, journalism, readers, witness
«I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.»
«Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.»
«It has been found that the less an advertisement looks like an advertisement, and the more it looks like an editorial, the more readers stop, look and read. Therefore, study the graphics used by editors and imitate them. Study the graphics used in advertisements, and avoid them.»
«It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.»
«Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings /as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.»
«Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Reading | Keywords: everlasting, lazy, readers
«I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.»
«I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Books, Evil | Keywords: bored, readers, Real Book

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