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“It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.”

Way Want Feels May Facts Reader Discipline Excellent Skip Brevity

Book:A Joy Forever

Source: A Joy Forever

“The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.”

Knows Needs Stills Book Problem Reader Cooking Like Me Cooks Explanation Riddle Skip Cookery

Author:Julia Child

“Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.”

Writing Book Lost Reader Labor Tire Skip

Book:Ladies' Magazine

Source: Ladies' Magazine

“On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.”

Ideas Hands Wanted Emotion Advice Youth Materials Reader Including Latter Relevant Publishing Verses Inferiors Skip Documentation

Author:Edmund Wilson

“While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.”

Want Trying Reader Details Boring New Things Skip Dump Enticing Learning New Learning New Things

Author:Jane Cleland

“I try to leave out the parts readers skip.”

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Author:Elmore Leonard