Quotes About Awareness

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

People do not read first. First and foremost, they see color. Then they see numbers, then shape, and then, if you still have their attention and they understand what you put in front of them, then they will read.

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader.

I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac.

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it.

Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it.

I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot.

Don't be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film.

What we can control is our readiness.

We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.