“A book exists at the intersection of the author’s subconscious and the reader’s response.”
–William Gibson, via BOOK EXPO AMERICA LUNCHEON TALK [2010]
Archive for the ‘Quotation’ Category
Quotation of the Day
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
A Slight Shift in Perspective
Monday, September 6th, 2010The “reframing” power of literature comes from the story’s not being exactly the same as the reader’s story. In fitting the two together, the reader has to shift his point of view and so moves out of what seemed like an immovable and rigid framework. In this way, reading breeds tolerance and sympathy for people and attitudes not seen like this before. Readers revise their view of their own problem by reading of those worse off than themselves. Readers learn to understand the other gender, other sexual orientations, the elderly and the poor. Only a slight shift in perspective is required to make a lot of things seem different” (p. 350).
Joseph Gold: Read for Your Life: Literature as a Life Support System
Quotation of the Day
Sunday, January 25th, 2009“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life; they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our byoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.”
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, p. 237
Quotation
Monday, November 26th, 2007The foundation and source of writing well is to be wise.
–Horace
