“Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.” KnowsWantBookHardGivenReaderOffersImportanceDollarsAverageCreatorTinyDespiteComicCorporateShopsAbandonedComic BookSelectionScopeFractionsBook Readers Author:Scott McCloud
“Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.” IfsWayDifferentReadingChanceAnswersFictionReaderOffersDifferent WaysParanormalWhat IfEntertaining Author:Jeaniene Frost
“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
“The copywriter uses words as tools to persuade and motivate an audience. You persuade your readers that you have something valuable to offer; you motivate them to acquire it for themselves. This is the essence of effective copywriting.” UseAudienceReaderOffersToolsEssenceValuableAcquireCopywriting Book:Words That Sell Source: Words That Sell
“If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable and will engage the reader's interest, go for it. Make sure you have something unique to offer. I enjoy the work of writers who give you something you won't find anywhere else.” IfsGivingWritingIdeasKidsEnjoyInterestReaderOffersUnique Author:Joel McIver
“The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.” WorldWantLooksKindBookCharacterShowsArtistHateRealizingMy OwnReaderOffersDecidedResponseSentencesVisualsCollaborationShow MeImaginativeHalfwayJacketsIllustration Author:Jonathan Lethem
“There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new.” ReaderOffersOnlineSomething NewCriticizeNo Point Author:Mathias Dopfner
“I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word.” MindBelieveKindStillsBookIdeasReasonLiteratureSpeakLanguageGivenTechnologyWrittenReaderOffersIdealsMiracleBoundsEncountersHostVehicleElsewhereGiven UpWritten WordProfundity Book:The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.” HelpingProblemSocialDealsNovelGroupsReaderFitOffersConflictAnalysisProtagonistsSocial Problems Author:Jane Smiley
“The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something they want - and get from you.” WantSelfInterestReaderOffersBenefitsAppealsSelf InterestHeadlines Author:John Caples
“The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because the reader has to concentrate much more than when they're looking at a canvas. It gives the author, on the other hand, the opportunity to feel like a creator: they can offer their readers a world in which there's room for everyone, as every reader has their own reading and vision.” WorldGivingFeelsHandsReadingLiteratureOpportunityRoomsVisionPaintingReaderOffersComplexesCreatorNarrativeComplexityDimensionsCanvasDisadvantages Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.” WorldMindMadeRealFeelingsProblemFormDesireAnswersTechnologyFantasyMagicReaderOffersTrapped Author:Lev Grossman
“I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.” WantFeelsBookStoriesLosesReaderOffersInvitesTakeaways Author:Julie Berry
“Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience.” FeelsWritingWellsBookDifferentWantedNovelReaderOffersDepthBonesCardsTradingComponentsInnovativeWebsiteMazes Author:Rick Riordan
“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.” IfsWorldWritingBookReadingReturnReaderDrinkOffersVersionsBeerReading BooksBook ReadingBooks And ReadingBook ReadersThis Is A BookInspiring Book Book:In good faith Source: In good faith