“Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.” WayShouldNumbersQualityHugeReaderStudiosSavedTraditionalPublishingDominantPublishersEclipseDvds Author:Steven Pressfield
“When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.” WritingLooksStillsAbleCoursesFoundDealsFictionQualityCasesModernSeriousReaderSouthRealisticSouthernFreakGrotesque Author:Flannery O'Connor
“I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love in the face of a variety of difficulties; that the quotidian life is not always easy, and is something worthy of respect.” FeelsHumansFacesLife IsEasyQualityReaderDifficultyWorthyVarietyAweEndurance Author:Elizabeth Strout
“I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.” ShouldBelieveChildrenBookKidsJoyTurnsReadingI BelieveQualityWorryReaderMore TimeQuantityIntroducingLifelongJoy Of Reading Author:James Patterson