Quotes About Engagement

Book buying studies have proven a reader has to hear about your book multiple times before they reach into their wallet and purchase a book. The number of exposures to your book is somewhere between six and twelve times before you collect a sale. A key part of your platform building process as an author is to give readers multiple exposures to your book and the availability.

You have to consistently work at building your audience or platform.

Not assuming you already know is a powerful principle of focus. One

Focus is not achieved by staring hard at something. It is not trying to force focus, nor does it mean thinking hard about something. Natural focus occurs when the mind is interested. When this occurs, the mind is drawn irresistibly toward the object (or subject) of interest. It is effortless and relaxed, not tense and overly controlled.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A fairy tale...on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must be for him no other.

If a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer 'writer' for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer poetry would embarrass us both.

Education, all smoothly say, is the production of useful citizens. But, good God, what on earth is a useful citizen just now?

You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.

I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I've made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

Jack turned to Cameron. "Do you just line them up, waiting to yell at me, on the off chance I'll stop by?

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.