Beta Readers Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#3. As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

David Brainerd

#4. When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

Richard Gere

#5. Start small and dream big.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. Authors write, readers read, money talks.

Toba Beta

#7. God might not be dead, but he's sure as hell missing in action.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#8. My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#9. If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.

Cate Blanchett

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

Toba Beta

#11. Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

Richard Dawkins

#12. Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

Richard J. Foster

#13. 9% would give up sex for the remote control. 91% has already given up sex for the remote control!

Jay Leno

#14. The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

Elliott Abrams

#15. 'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

Kevin Brownlow

#16. He sometimes believed that the compulsion to make fiction was no more than a bulwark against confusion, maybe even insanity. It was a desperate imposition of order by people able to find that precious stuff only in their minds ... never in their hearts.

Stephen King

#17. It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.

J.D. Salinger

#18. The great writer evokes the words
that buried within hearts of readers.

Toba Beta

#19. I was feeling pretty good out there in the middle when I went in, but it was one of those things - sometimes you get a really good ball. If it gets you out you just have to forget about it and make sure you do the hard work out there next time you get in.

Mahela Jayawardene