“an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.” KnowsBookLinesResultsReaderTruth IsCatSmellInstanceDustSpiteAutobiographyExtinctionSpectatorsDiligenceTruestDisinterestedBetween The LinesRemorseless Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.” IfsWellsMayLongCharacterMightMemoriesCitiesReaderCircumstancesHundredPainfulIntenseInstanceExcitementRemarkableLong AgoBaltimore Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
“It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.” TwoDifferentTurnsPoorCasesTakenImaginePerspectiveReaderAccountsInstanceAfrican AmericanReportsFarmersFamiliarityTerrainPreconceptions Author:William Finnegan
“As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingKindWantedFilmUsedNovelReaderInstanceFlashbackCompression Author:Salman Rushdie
“I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.” FirstsLittlesHas BeensTwoReasonFilmLiteratureGivenReaderDifficultyChinaInstanceChinese Author:Salman Rushdie