“When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.” WritingMayArtPayAttentionSubjectsReaderScientistProofPay AttentionSomething NewRejectedDiscomfort Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.” WellsCountryHomeSeemsKidsTodayHatePayFourFeetTeachingCarReaderTasteResearchPropertyBoatExpensiveSquaresVacationCapitalistEmailIconsCambridgeAnti-americanTeaching KidsBrowsing Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.” ShouldWritingHumansArtSoundGrowthPayClearFailingStudentsReaderDisciplineTaxesResearchScientistGravesProseConventionsSetbackExplosivesArt Of Writing Book:Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age
“If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear. . .” PeopleIfsWayBookStoriesLanguageDifficultPaySecretWrittenReaderMy WayHalls Author:Robertson Davies
“If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingFactsPayAttentionFictionNovelReaderMoonResearchConcernBlueScience FictionSettingSettingsAccurateJupiterBlue Moon Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“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
“When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may provoke. And I don't know, but I must mention the name Borges. I try to mention it in every one of my works. It's a mark, a stamp, a sort of homage to Argentinidad. But it's an homage that works through pat phrases, those stock images that populate his work: the night, labyrinths, libraries. That is, I don't want simply to pay homage to Borges, but rather the contrary: to recall his commonplaces.” KnowsWantTryingMayUseNightNamesPayReaderMarkLibraryContraryPhrasesWorking ItRecallsProvokingStampsCommonplaceLabyrinthHomageWaterfallsBorges Author:Sergio Chejfec
“You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate style that might not appeal to as many readers but will be incredibly meaningful to the readers you have. Truly, that's as wonderful if not more wonderful.” IfsWritingWellsMayMightPayWonderfulStyleReaderPressesMeaningfulAppealsFascinatingIntricate Author:Alice Mattison
“The biggest challenge I think every publisher is facing is how do we get readers to pay for content? So we're constantly testing, trying new things.” ThinkingTryingChallengesPayReaderNew ThingsPublishersTestingTrying New Things Author:Maria Rodale