“Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.” PeopleUsedAudiencePleaseUniversityJournalistAspirationAcademicCaptivesReviewers Author:V. S. Pritchett
“The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.” FirstsHappensAudienceFiveMinutesPersonalitySillyGenerousFascinatedAcademicFive MinutesWithholding Author:Laurie Anderson