Reader's Eye Skips
4th July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, writing, writer-reader relationship, Ian Fleming |
"It is a dig at the author's vanity to realise how quickly the reader's eye skips across the words which it has taken him so many months to try to arrange in the right sequence."
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