“That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.” WantStuffDoorsReaderTasteAuthorityAwfulEditorsPublishersObsolete Author:Walter Jon Williams
“Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.” KnowsNeedsLooksMatterNumbersKnow HowMinutesInformationSourceReaderAuthority Author:David Gelernter
“The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.” UseClassReaderAuthorityOvercomingSkepticism Author:Nikki Giovanni
“I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are wacked for life.” IfsKnowsGivingKindI CanIdeasReaderAuthorityFirmImpressCan NotPuppy Author:Barbara Woodhouse
“It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.” BookHardWholeKidsFunVoiceChallengesAttitudeNovelReaderBattleAuthorityAdultsEnvironmentalWhole LifeFoolishNarrativeGreedyArbitraryGrownupsKids LoveIrreverentSmartassNarrative Voice Author:Carl Hiaasen
“I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert.” WantReaderAuthorityExperts Author:John C. Maxwell
“I would rather be viewed by the reader as I'm just taking a journey with you, and here's what I'm learning, what are you learning? Oh, you do this better than me. Than to be viewed as kind of like an authority.” KindJourneyReaderAuthority Author:John C. Maxwell
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.” WantWritingIdeasArtistInterestReaderPureAuthorityIntenseJailDictatorshipOxygenGratificationEnviedAutocracy Author:Tom Stoppard