“I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.” ThinkingWayBookPlayAudienceObjectsReaderBedMembersPagesIntimate Author:Sarah Ruhl
“My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.” WritingFeelingsEasyLevelsInfluenceEmotionalMembersPagesFamily Members Author:Kim Smith
“The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.” PeopleFoundIdentityTerribleMembersPagesOfficialsPretendingFraudIronicAnnoyingRantAnnoying Things Author:Nikki Sanderson
“I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.” MayHas BeensArtTwoBookRunningPoliticalFoundSocialMy OwnMembersPagesCongressPhilosopherLawyerCampaignsBackgroundsHistorianYellowAcademicThreatenedTelephonesLiberal ArtsGood Lawyer Book:Up'til Now: A Memoria Source: Up'til Now: A Memoria
“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.” FormDesireReadingOpportunitySocialSubjectsSeriousReaderActivityMembersPagesEmbraceIntenseIntimateHalfwayIndicationSexuallyFamily MembersEntwined Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward