Rich Sommer Quotes

Im pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if its become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic Im interested in.

Rich Sommer

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• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Reader
  • Tell

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• The nuclear weapon is obsolete. I want to get rid of them all.

  

  Chuck Horner
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear
  • Obsolete

• If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Universe

• Headlines from the avian flu situation continue to weigh on overall consumer sentiment towards chicken in China.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Situation
  • Flu
  • Headlines

• I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

  

  Len Wein
  • Story
  • Reader
  • Effect

• Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Said
  • Reader
  • Reactions

• The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • May
  • Reader
  • Fail

• I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me!

  

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster
  • Book
  • Game
  • Reading

• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

  

  Robert Frost
  • True
  • Writer
  • Reader

• I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Giving
  • Stories
  • Reader

• The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Reverse
  • Obsolete

• The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Job
  • Leader
  • Obsolete

• When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Book
  • Stupid
  • Reader

• I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Memory
  • Reader
  • Trifles

• He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Use
  • Reader
  • Dictionary

• Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation.

  

  Francis Arinze
  • Salvation
  • Vatican
  • Declares

• Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and lays claim to humility. I see hubris on both sides: a pretence that we could ascend to an objective account of the world, on the one hand, and a pretence that we have the resources to live and act without a sense of there being something to which we answerable, on the other. So both sides are 'villains'.

  

  David E. Cooper
  • World
  • Humility
  • Claims

• In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Wealth
  • Tax
  • France

• I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of Akiba Rubinstein, where the entire strategic course was maintained from the first to the last move.

  

  Boris Gelfand
  • Style
  • Match
  • World Championship

• Im pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if its become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic Im interested in.

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Reader
  • Obsolete
  • Headlines