“To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No farfetched or obscure statement will stop them. You have got to hit them where they live in the heart or in the head. You have got to catch their eyes or ears with something simple, something direct, something they want.” WantMindHeartEyeLanguageSimpleReaderOffersDirectEarsStatementsListenersImpressObscure Author:John Caples
“I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something to the person next to him, who repeats it not very distinctly to the next person, and so on until, by the time the last person hears it, it comes out completely transformed. Of course, as he explained to me, the meaning in Finnegans Wake is obscure because it is a 'nightpiece.' I think, too, that, like the author's sight, the work is often blurred.” ThinkingPersonsSaidSometimesLastsCoursesNextGamesReaderSightEnjoyedRepeatsTransformedObscureMisleadJoyceParlorFinnegans WakeParlor Games Author:Sylvia Beach
“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.” MayFactsDesireLiteratureTermCommunicationReaderTasksFundamentalsImpressionRebellionNeverthelessObscure Author:Georges Bataille
“Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.” WritingExpressionReaderObscureAuthorship Author:Nicolas Chamfort
“I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.” WayWritingBelieveMayDifficultPoetReaderDon't BelieveObscure Author:Lydia Davis
“Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.” ReaderObscureHeadlinesDecipher Author:David Ogilvy