“A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.” IfsPartyNovelMissingReaderConversationStartersAfter Party Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.” TryingBigsJobsCoursesPartyCompanyMediaReaderBest JobPackersLiberal Party Author:Margo Kingston
“In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.” FirstsPersonsMatterImaginationViewsPartySubjectsPerspectiveReaderThirdsPoint Of ViewEncountersDistinctionInvitesRepresentationObserversPornographyEroticSubject MatterFirst PersonThird Person Book:Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation Source: Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation
“To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet.” SimplePartyPaySupportHavensSourceReaderModelsThirdsDollarsComplicatedEnterprisePrintProvenRevenueBusiness ModelsAdvertisersThird Parties Author:Dave Eggers
“Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.” IfsWantWritingHomeHappensPartyFineReaderReviews Author:J. K. Rowling
“I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.” BookBigsKidsImaginationPartyBoysReaderHorseRidingMy ImaginationCaptured Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do.” PeopleThinkingWantFirstsLightMightAsksEnjoyRoomsPartyReaderSurpriseTrustedColleaguesLiving RoomBlinding LightSurprise Party Book:The Writing Class Source: The Writing Class