“The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?” CultureEnergyReaderCrisisNovelistsEngagingImpossibility Book:How to Be Alone: Essays Source: How to Be Alone: Essays
“It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which is what makes the books so amusing. In matter-of-fact, authoritative tones, the authors tell us how plants and human beings exchange energy - or they describe what angels look like, whether or how they're sexed, how they communicate with human beings, and how they differ from ghosts. Readers might be expected to wonder, How do they know?” KnowsHumansLooksBookMatterFactsMightEnergyEasyHuman BeingsWonderAtheismReaderNewsAngelArgumentSellsPlantCommunicatePositive AtheismExpectedArguingGhostClassicToneRelyDeclarationGood NewsAmusingMatter Of Fact Author:Wendy Kaminer
“You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.” IfsPastEnergyCan DoReaderIntellectualResearchArgumentThirdsValuableStrongestInkDo The BestParagraph Author:Carl Hiaasen
“But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.” ThinkingGivingArtStoriesMovingEnergyProduceReaderExcitingNot SureShort StoryMinorsThrillGreat ArtAmusingRapture Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.” IfsGivingPersonsBookHardEnergyReaderEntertainmentBookstoresCompactUnwritten Book:Heretics of Dune Source: Heretics of Dune
“The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.” EnergyTermReaderSlipsExhilarating Author:Seamus Heaney