A Quote by H. L. Mencken

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

H. L. Mencken

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Reader Smart Thousand Worth

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H. L. Mencken
American - Writer
September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Honore de Balzac

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

Mati Klarwein

Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.

Basil Bunting

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Ben Shneiderman

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

Scott Westerfeld

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

David Foster Wallace

A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.

Stephen Hawking

A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.

Sarah Parcak

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

Roy Blount, Jr.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

Tupac Shakur

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.

Unknown

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.

Fay Weldon

The real boneheads are the libertarians.

Peter Brimelow

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.