Writing Quote: Reader's Digest

[According to writer Jefferson D. Bates]: "While it's long been a popular sport among the literary intelligentsia to put down the Digest, I'll unhesitatingly take the other side. If you want to find examples of clear, tightly edited prose, you'll look a long way to hunt down anything better than you can encounter in any issue of the much maligned Reader's Digest.

In Ian Jackman, editor, The Writer's Mentor, 2004