“Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.” PeoplePlayCommunityPleasureBuildingReaderTransactions Author:John Hodgman
“Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.” IfsWayHeartHouseDoubtBuildingReaderTownsNo DoubtVillageConstructionMasterpieceExpandingConvenientModernityBuilder Book:Lark Rise to Candleford Source: Lark Rise to Candleford
“Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools that last beyond the classroom setting.” BookLastsReadingSupportStudentsBuildingReaderToolsSettingSettingsClassroomExposingReading Experience Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits
“I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading with the entire cast in the room for The Clone Wars makes the experience much more organic and I love that.” KindWarDoneMomentsReadingEasyLinesRoomsActingSituationMinutesBuildingReaderProjectsCasts Author:Jim Cummings
“I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.” PeopleCommunityLove IsHonestBuildingReaderBeing HonestIntimateBuilding Community Author:James Altucher
“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.” ThinkingWritingBeautifulReadingModernBuildingReaderProjectsStonesTownsFolksArchitectureSovietHousingIdenticalPublic Housing Author:Christine Jennings