“I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.” IfsStillsImportantStoriesEnjoyAwarenessReaderConsciousReactions Author:Thomas Perry
“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.” WayHumansWellsArtTermAwarenessPossibilityPoetReaderMajorsSignificantNovelistsReally Great Author:F. R. Leavis
“But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.” IfsThinkingShouldHumansKindShowsLiteratureSocialCommonConditionsAwarenessReaderCommitmentNervesManifestTouchingSlipsHuman Condition Author:Bel Kaufman
“All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting.” PersonsHas BeensSoulSpeakProcessForgetConsciousnessChildhoodAwarenessIdentityReaderRememberedFixedYour ChildrenPlasticTrust MeFluxAwareness Of Others Book:Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer Source: Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer
“Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)” WantMomentsSeemsMightSocialForgetInterestingCommonGriefAwarenessMissingReaderShameComplicatedDisasterDiscussionSmoothPatriarchyWant UGlitchesHavishamMiss HavishamComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.” WorldMadeReasonGivenAwarenessReaderCuriosityOddContradictionContradictoryUnafraidVibrancyOddness Author:Curtis Sittenfeld