Nigel Hamilton quotes

If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.
-- Nigel Hamilton

#Talking #Reader #Talking To Yourself

Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.
-- Nigel Hamilton

#Baby #Drama #Party

Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!
-- Nigel Hamilton

#Sports #Strong #Hero

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

Those who write clearly have readers.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

A book brings its own history to the reader.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader