“A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.” PeopleWorldNeedsMindFirstsIdeasLightRomancePassionCoursesLiteratureInterestAudiencePiecesMagicMysteryHorrorShadowDialogueCaptureSeducingLight And Shadow Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.” TryingLooksLiteratureStuffAudienceComfortWindowBusRidingStaffViewersWeird Stuff Author:Chris Matthews
“All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.” WellsShowsThreeCoursesLiteratureMorningAudienceInternetVarietyCables Author:Katie Couric
“Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.” KnowsEyeLiteratureWaitingDealsAudienceFirePatientBe Patient Author:Ken Kesey
“This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.” PeopleTwoReasonWholeLife IsLiteratureLeftHoursAudienceFascinatingDocumentariesRatingProgrammesFactual Author:Martin Bashir
“I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.” PastLiteratureDestinyAudienceDevelopmentConcernWorthyOur PastOur Destiny Author:Sterling K. Brown
“The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.” IfsWayPersonsStoriesTurnsLiteratureFictionAudienceToo MuchFansScience FictionLaysAverageDetailsRelyShort StoryTranslateLifelongAverage PersonDensityOpaque Author:James Cameron
“Postmodernism cost literature its audience.” LiteratureAudienceCostPostmodernismPostmodern Author:Scott Turow