Beta Readers Quotes & Sayings

The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers. — Toba Beta

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. — Mark Twain

Memory is a landscape watched from the window of a moving train. ( ... ) These things happen right before our very eyes, we know them to be real, but they're so far away we can't touch them. Some are so far, so very far away, and the train moving so fast, that we can't be sure any longer that they really did happen. Maybe we merely dreamed them? — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Now let's say you've finished your first draft. Congratulations! Good job! Have a glass of champagne, send out for pizza, do whatever it is you do when you've got something to celebrate. If you have someone who has been impatiently waiting to read your novel-a spouse, let's say, someone who has perhaps been working nine to five and helping to pay the bills while you chase your dream-then this is the time to give up the goods ... if, that is, your first reader or readers will promise not to talk to you about the book until you are ready to talk to them about it. — Stephen King

It ain't just about writing on some documents,
author writes on to the readers' heart and mind. — Toba Beta

The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero. — Louis Bachelier

Why should I change to suit other people's inadequacy? — John Wiltshire

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not? — Ram Dass

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive. — Dolly Parton

Don't just play your way around the course. Think your way around way around the course. — Sam Snead

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck. — Florynce Kennedy

Suffering has clear causes in your brain and body, so if you change its causes, you'll suffer a lot less. And you can change those causes. — Rick Hanson

Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse. — Howard Zinn

Authors write, readers read, money talks. — Toba Beta

I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need 'beta-readers' who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague. — Tony DiTerlizzi

6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. 7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions. — Anonymous

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day. — Andrew Wiles