Sentences with phrase «reader than a writer»

She identifies herself as more of a reader than a writer and truly understands the experience of reading a book.

It's so different as a reader than a writer sometimes — I think because the writing is so personal!

I think I'm still more of a reader than a writer.

Not exact matches

The company became known as a content farm in part because it paid writers very little, and the content catered specifically to search engines rather than readers.

The principle is that the Internet is an interactive medium, and an exchange between readers and writers is a much more meaningful form of interaction than a Like or a Share.

For readers and potential writers, here are some of the qualities we tend to look for in selecting verse: First, some indication that the poet has read more deeply than R. S. Gwynn's Narcissus in The Narcissiad, who «knows his poets, too, for he has read / The works of many, three of whom are dead.»

From writers who are creatively exhausted from managing a constant stream of online feedback, to readers who can't seem to pull themselves away from their smartphones, to activists who are burned out from responding to yet another crisis with a social media campaign, to foodies who can't enjoy a meal without snapping a photo for Instagram, our writing, reading, and sharing habits consume more of our time and mental energy than ever.

As predictable and pat as the Esquire piece may be, there's little doubt that the new consensus on family — «straight people blew up marriage a long time ago» — has powerful adherents quite a bit further up in the clouds than the average Esquire reader, or writer.

You guys have reminded me that we have more power than we think, that writers in this industry need not accept the status quo, especially when their readers really care about their work.

As one reader posted on the on «line bookstore, Amazon.com, «Ms. Walker is truly one of the most daring writers of the twentieth century... [but] I found the details of the lesbian lovemaking to be more than I ever wanted to know about lesbian relationships» and the assumption that my dead relatives spy on me in my bed quite revolting.

There's nothing worse than a writer leaving out facts to try to deceive the reader

Not only does a fluent reader make the transition to being a fluent writer much more easily than a non-fluent reader, but as students get older reading plays an important role in math, science, and social studies, too.

What kind of selection criteria does baby center use if it's mom readers are significantly more educated than their writers?

The researchers found that writers are more confident their friends can correctly interpret their e-mails than strangers — and readers are more confident in interpreting e-mails from friends than strangers, as well.

To the casual reader, many of those moments captured by their love - lost writers are better than all of the others.

At the Los Angeles Times, he was a lead writer on the film industry for more than a decade, taking readers behind the scenes to examine the creative process and explain how Hollywood works, and why.

Superstar writers Nick Spencer (Secret Empire) and Donny Cates (Doctor Strange) team up with Secret Empire artist Rod Reis and Szymon Kudranski (Daredevil / Punisher) to deliver this larger - than - life tale that will shock readers and Strange fans alike!

To that end, even a young teacher still has more experience as a reader and writer (both traditionally and digitally) than his or her students, and if a technology is confusing then it provides him or her the opportunity to model the thinking and writing process.

To understand one another, writers, readers, speakers, and listeners need more in common than twenty - six letters of the alphabet and the words they form.

At the center of reform is the idea of students as proactive learners — readers, writers, and mathematicians — rather than simply recipients of learning from a teacher.

Contemporary texts may be conveyed in digital bytes rather than paper and ink — the medium is, in part, the message — but we are still writers and readers.

Children who excel in this area are often superb readers, writers, story - tellers, and absorb foreign languages more easily than others.

More than any other stakeholders in education, teachers know that no one answer, no single approach, no simple solution will lead all students to success as readers and writers.

You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped, but some people know less than they think they do (writers and beta readers alike).

Several folks commenting on these various blogs have pointed out that Amazon doesn't care about the writers and readers any more than the big publishers do.

More curatorial than editorial, the bundle model is not yet a way of providing a leg - up to lesser - known writers, but if readers get accustomed to it, it might yet become so.

But if a site is going to sell books, its appeal to readers is more important than its appeal to writers.

Some indie writers use beta readers and colleagues rather than professional editing and proofreading services, because it can be far less expensive to go without formal edits, and many indies — understandably!

Authors who earn a lot of readers are popular authors, but they're not necessarily better writers or more professional writers than the unpopular writers.

In the IndieReCon class above, she also discusses her own brand — the Ninja Writer icons, Writer's Dojo community etc, that she is better known for in the writing world, rather than discussing her Young Adult reader base for her fiction.

But it also means you have to be much better than an increasing number of other writers to earn a reader's regard.

It only means that the goal — whatever that goal is — means more to the writer than having readers does.

Maybe soon all this book gaming will start to piss readers off when there's hardly any good books to read any more, then they'll go looking for writers who stuck with it and write good fiction, rather than just pumping out crap and then gaming the system.

KU 1.0 created an environment where writers did not have to engage readers beyond the 11 % mark in order to make a living, nor were they required to offer anything more than the absolute minimum required length to get in the game.

2 min readThere's nothing more refreshing than seeing readers, writers, and publishers come together to celebrate their love of all things books.

Here's another secret: readers read faster than writers write.

Indie publishers spend far less time getting their story into readers hands than a writer working the traditional system.

I'm not 100 % pro Amazon, but I agree that they are more aligned with both readers and writers interests than is Hachette, and I'm tired of hearing them vilified in the media.

Rather than accurately self - identifying as a company whose entire structure and revenue is based on making its money from writers, rather than from readers, vanity presses invariably engage in false advertising, claiming to be publishers, or «innovative» publishers, or to offer a «new type of professional opportunity» to writers, yada yada yada.

Unfortunately, this likely means their overall business model relies on charging writers for services rather than selling books to readers.

As a writer, I'd love to get my work into the hands of as many readers as I can, and for all of these reasons, a traditional publisher can help me reach many more readers than I could on my own.

Brand - name writers with instant recognizability in the market should and will be marketed differently than the debut novelist who doesn't have any name recognition with readers.

Sure, some writers need to do more than one draft, but if doing another draft is an excuse to not mail it for fear of the story being rejected or not read by readers, and this fear has a bunch of your stories sitting in files not mailed, maybe you might want to think of not doing that final polish and daring to be bad and mailing the thing or publishing it indie.

Publishers Weekly's weekly print edition boasts 16,000 + subscribers with a pass - along rate of 4.25 readers per issue and is read by more than 68,000 booksellers, publishers, public and academic librarians, wholesalers, distributors, educators, agents and writers.

There's nothing more enlightening than spending time with like - minded readers and writers.

Like all writers, I still need feedback to make sure the reader interprets the cues the way I intend, but I'm so much better with emotion than I used to be — and it's all thanks to the ET.

As a writer and a reader, Christian romantic suspense is my favorite genre, so I'm dedicating this page to feature clean and inspirational romantic suspense novels (other than my own) that I have read (or would like to read).

Self - published authors Hugh Howey, J.A. Konrath, Barry Eisler and others have asked readers not to boycott Amazon, because the company «has done more to liberate readers and writers than any other entity since Johannes Gutenberg refined the movable type printing press.»

Maybe that's just me being hyper - critical, because as writers we tend to notice more errors than casual readers.

It would seem it does, because many writers and authors are more confused than ever to what is the best path to getting their book out there, selling and into the hands of readers.