To be honest, dear reader, my main reason for writing this is to warn you.
Smith said being honest with readers about how journalism is created gave publications credibility.
The same sense emerges, more damagingly, in his defensive scorn for complexity and difficulty, as if these literary values were a trick played by effete professors on honest, hardworking readers.
Only by knowing what is measurable can we appreciate how much isn't, and be honest with readers about the fact that everything else may have to remain a mystery.
It may be moot and it certainly is presumptuous, but I would be less than honest with readers if I did not say what I believe: Making Hillary Rodham Clinton the secretary of state in Barack Obama's administration would be a mistake.
Ultimately, travel is so subjective that provided writers are thoroughly industrious, thoroughly accurate and thoroughly honest the readers will make up their own minds about whether to follow them.
In this brutally honest account, readers actually get none of those things.
He sets the standard for poetry translation as fidelity to the receiving language, and sets a further standard: he is honest with the reader about his strategies.
It has always been tempting to think of Philip Roth as a confessional writer – as honest to his reader as Alexander Portnoy on the psychiatrist's couch: "You want to hear everything?
Though a bullied child, she is a discriminating reader, honest enough to admit to the beastly clergyman Brocklehurst that she does not like Psalms, because they are "not interesting".
