“Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.” HumansWellsBodyHappensReaderFitEssenceDown AndSizeNewspapersFlyingDesertDisplayHuman BodyRabbitsEaglesZoomScanningBody Work Author:Russ Wilcox
“'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.” BookLostForgetReaderDown AndLaysAdmireParadiseParadise Lost Book 2 Book:Paradise lost Source: Paradise lost
“Especially with a magazine like Lampoon, which was very dependent on newsstand sales. Our readers didn't usually occupy the same address long enough to get a subscription, because they were in college, or they were hippies. So it was very up-and-down, and we had to calculate how many to print, which was always sort of a headache from a business point of view.” LongEnoughViewsCollegeReaderDown AndPoint Of ViewMagazinesAddressesDependentPrintUp And DownHippieHeadacheSubscription Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.” WayWantLooksDifferentEndsAsksCuttingHappenedPerspectiveReaderDown AndCleanSlipsChaptersBleedingDifferent PerspectiveSlyStilettos Author:Kathryn Harrison
“I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.” ThinkingTryingLittlesStillsMotherBitsSportsWifeReaderHabitLittle BitDaughterDown AndMy WifeEnvyMy TimeMy DaughterBad Habits Author:Mike Krzyzewski