“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.” PeopleIfsFeelsWritingArtRealRememberFormGuyProcessDecisionForgetStruggleReaderMercyWho You AreSoldierReal LifeResistanceMagazinesHopelessHeroicPerpetualAfflictionBehalfOther GuysKeyboardsShowing UpRemember Who You Are Author:Steve Almond
“I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader's eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.” MeanLittlesLightEyeWishReaderPagesMagazinesTapeArrangementsBinding Author:Kingsley Amis
“Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.” SelfSelf EsteemReaderNewspapersEsteemCardsMagazinesMeant To BeArticlesValentineValentine Card Author:Rex Murphy
“Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.” WorldBookStatesReadingNationsLossUnitedUnited StatesSupportReaderWesternMagazinesCivilizedDevotedBook ReadingWestern WorldCivilized Nations Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.” PeopleWantReadingActorsReaderCreaturesLimitsFindingsAskingMagazinesTraitsGuardianAvid Author:Zoe Saldana
“I can't begin to predict how news will be delivered to readers in, say, 100 years. But I do know one thing that hasn't changed: Whatever the delivery system, whether it's a magazine, book or blog, people like vivid writing, strong stories and credible people. So while the venue is changing rapidly, human nature isn't, which I find soothing.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsHumansI CanBookStoriesStrongOne ThingHuman NatureChangedReaderNewsMagazinesVividBlogsDeliverySoothingCredibleVenues Author:Anna Quindlen
“You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.” MemoriesAdviceReaderFollowingSellingMagazinesMore MoneyShort Memory Author:Steve Forbes
“Writers are voracious readers. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me. Everything was fair game, from Louisa May Alcott to my older cousin's True Romance Magazines, from Lewis Carroll to the backs of cereal boxes. All of this fed me, but it took certain books to make me grow. I don't want to work without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.” WorldWantMayBookEyeRomanceCertainPassionGamesGrowsMysteryReaderDramaFairsBoxesMagazinesFedsMultitudesStoppingCousinConnectingAlphabetCerealFair GameTrue Romance Author:Gloria Naylor
“...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.” RealHandsActionAudienceStageReaderPhotographTheatreMagazines Book:Photography & Society Source: Photography & Society
“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated.” Has BeensViewsReaderNewsNewspapersGenuineMagazinesIllustration Author:Andy Grundberg
“I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.” PeopleCultureReaderDollarsPopsMagazinesPop CultureJunkie Author:Laurie Foos
“I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.” ThinkingStoriesReaderHabitLettersMagazinesCommentSectionsTime Magazine Author:Joel Stein
“We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories that would appeal to a million people. And what you end up with is a kind of tradition that might have staying power - the cockroach after armageddon.” PeopleKindEndsStoriesMightRunningMillionsReaderTraditionMagazinesAppealsGiantsStayingSophisticatedCirculationArmageddonCockroachesStaying Power Author:Lorin Stein
“The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And to have a bigger vision of the magazine's style and an understanding that every [issue] should be well-balanced and hopefully surprising. To have a pink wall with a door of perception where he can bang his head on.” NeedsShouldWellsUnderstandingVisionIssuesDoorsStyleWallReaderPerceptionBiggerMagazinesHopefullyEditorsSurprisingBalancedCrewBangsDoors Of Perception Author:Toni Jerrman
“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
“[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.” KidsFilmReadingPlayerReaderTreatsSellsProductionsI RealizedMagazinesFeaturesComing OutPremieresFilm Production Author:William Gibson