“in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.” PeopleLittlesBookDifferentStoriesReadingChanceReaderLuckySixPagesOrdinaryLonelyMarkTwentiesAccomplishBoredDifferent PeoplesBook ReadingDifferent PlaceAlphabetOrdinary LifeReading Stories Author:Natalie Babbitt
“Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry is a sharp-eyed, engaging writer, and she deftly captures the terrors, ruptures and intimacies of one seemingly ordinary neighborhood, always finding a precarious beauty in her characters' lives. This is a book that is terrifying, startling, and very hard to put down.” WayLooksBookHardCharacterPowerfulFindingsPagesOrdinaryTerrorIntimacyNeighborhoodCaptureFamily And FriendsEngagingTerrificHauntingInterferenceBerriesPrecariousTurnerRuptureThis Is A Book Author:Rebecca Godfrey
“Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.” ArtRealityArtistChoicesLiteratureSocialWealthDealsConditionsTalentPositionPagesOrdinaryPsychologicalRealismExceptionalImaginativeFreedom Of Choice Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.” KindDoeSeemsStuffCuttingPagesOrdinaryBackwardsStorytellerTenseModernismShufflePresent Tense Author:Philip Pullman
“Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.” StudyReaderPagesOrdinaryCrossesBoundsFatsExplanationVolumeHuntsDictionaryCommentary Author:D. A. Carson
“I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.” WayBookEndsStoriesTurnsStuffEffortImagineWrittenReaderPagesOrdinaryRevelationsThe End Of The DayImagine ThatRevealingFast PacedSimply LoveMinimal Effort Author:Ashwin Sanghi