“Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?” BookRealStudyReaderElementsApproachPagesTechniqueOntologyGuerrillas Book:The Illuminati Papers Source: The Illuminati Papers
“A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.” WorldWayBookFansObjectsReaderApproachComicComic Book Author:Kate Beaton
“Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story alone, and it sometimes feels as if readers are looking for the same style/approach from the same writer over and over again, which hasn't helped me in the publishing biz.” IfsFeelsBookSometimesStoriesIndividualStyleReaderApproachDevelopingPublishing Author:Scott Bradfield
“I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.” TryingHardStoriesReaderApproachStartingExpertsLecturesStarting Out Author:Michael Pollan
“F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.” IfsWayWellsPersonsMightReadingFictionNovelMiddleCenturyReaderApproachVolumeToiletsTwentieth CenturyNourishmentBetter PersonFrivolousDiversionBest PlaceDubiousDichotomyOffendingBroccoli Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
“You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and it's better than any kind of writing class you'll ever take. You will absorb techniques and then in a lot of cases you can just start writing using the style of the book or the author that you admire and then your own style will emerge out of that. Be a diligent reader and then try to write seriously, professionally and approach everything in writing in a professional way.” WayWritingTryingKindBookClassCasesStyleReaderApproachTechniqueAdmireGenreDiligent Author:Homer Hickam
“I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.” PeopleThinkingWantTwoBigsMightRealizingReaderApproachSecondsBowlsEmbarrassingToilets Author:Augusten Burroughs
“I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.” ThinkingKnowsWantFeelsStoriesTeachReaderApproachResearchEducationalEnterprise Author:Susan Orlean
“It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.” WritingSometimesHoursReaderApproachGratefulSurpriseFollowingAllowingSurprise MeUnorthodox Author:Grant Morrison
“But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.” MightReaderApproachScholarAuthorshipClimax Author:George Pattison
“It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsImportantHardMomentsAnswersForgetHappenedMysteryReaderApproachExplanationImportant Moments Author:John Darnielle