“Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?” RomanceTeacherReaderIncludingAccomplishMissionsFulfillingLibrarianEnglish Teacher Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.” PeopleThinkingBookCareJobsReaderIncludingBoxesReviewsI CareCereal Author:Lisa Scottoline
“On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.” IdeasHandsWantedEmotionAdviceYouthMaterialsReaderIncludingLatterRelevantPublishingVersesInferiorsSkipDocumentation Author:Edmund Wilson
“The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media.” StoriesUseEnvironmentGreaterSubjectsMediaStyleReaderProfoundDepthIncludingNarrativeComplexityDigitalInherentInvolvementLinearInputBedtimeCollaboratorsTop DownDemocratization Author:Fred Ritchin
“Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots of readers - including eminent critics - jump to conclusions: that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is a central background text, that Aschenbach is an inferior writer, that he's never been attracted by pubescent male beauty before, that he dies of cholera.” PeopleDiesMastersReaderBirthTragedyCriticsMalesIncludingBackgroundsConclusionIronyRemarkableInferiorsAmbiguityCholeraMale Beauty Author:Philip Kitcher
“If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.” IfsBookMightFormTurnsMy OwnNumbersEffortOpinionReaderIndependentIncludingCommittedReviewsDisappointing Author:Joyce Carol Oates