“Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.” FirstsBelieveStatesI BelieveUnitedAttentionUnited StatesNovelPiecesGreenReviewsIntriguingPartisans Author:Terry Southern
“If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself.” IfsWorldWritingMatterResultsPiecesMinutesSpreadVideoIslandsDryReviewsCleanersViralDry CleanersViral Videos Author:Jeremy Stoppelman
“The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"” PeopleThinkingWritingKindBookYoungGuyCultureOpinionPiecesQuittingWhy NotReviewsAspireThis GuyPremises Author:Chuck Klosterman
“When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of a piece of work, of making it as good as you can at that moment, is more of a relief than anything else, and then you wait for reviews.” EndsEnoughWholeMomentsFeelingsWaitingPiecesReliefThat MomentReviews Author:Dani Shapiro