Raising Readers Quotes & Sayings

Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence. — Nancy Kress

The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief. Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. — Ronald Reagan

Do what you want to do in life and you will see what life will do to you on earth. What you always do, pays what it always pays! — Israelmore Ayivor

So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again ... — Virginia Woolf

this new faith has a secret energy that will keep on working even should you best King Charles on the field of battle. — John Lincoln

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures. — Jay Maisel

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever. — John Irving