“Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.” WritingMindBookEyeImaginationPleasureAttentionMastersReaderSorrowPagesCastsDelightConclusionVainTravellerEagernessCaptivityDepartingDetaining Book:Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works
“There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.” SaidReasonAgePurposeNextBornGenerationsReaderUnderstoodShadowCrossesCastsGiantsTowersGreat WritersIrrelevance Author:Caroline Gordon
“My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.” WorldWritingTryingLittlesDreamRealityBlackMy OwnWhiteReaderUnderstoodAbsolutesMirrorsComplexesCastsHonestlyHopefullyBlack And WhiteDream WorldAmbivalent Author:Andre Dubus
“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
“While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they care about better with each story.” PeopleKnowsTryingCharacterStoriesCareInformationReaderAddCastsNew Information Author:Jane Cleland
“specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.” LongFormFictionNovelReaderCasts Author:Nathan Lowell
“I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.” StoriesReaderCastsFantasticSpellsTransportShort Love Author:Nicholas Royle