“We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and what is merely cultural scrap. In such a society, we don't have the experience of contemplative space, of the time or mood to engage a book of poetry or even read a novel. Who can achieve the unconscious-conscious state of the reader when everything is stimulation, everything is movement and information?” BookStatesCultureSpaceNovelKnowingAchieveInformationMovementReaderComputerConsciousMoodUnconsciousScrapContemplativeStimulation Author:T.C. Boyle
“An electronic paper has infinite space because you can bring forth as much content as a reader wants. And the resolution of ads is very high. And when you touch the ad you can interact with the advertiser and the paper will take you to the advertiser's Web site and you can get more information. So ideally there should be a better connection between the ads you're shown and what you're actually interested in.” WantShouldSpaceInformationReaderPaperConnectionsInfiniteResolutionAdsSiteAdvertisersInfinite Space Author:Russ Wilcox
“Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.” PeopleWritingMeanActionFormSpeakSpaceTalkingExpressionReaderConversationSpeechEmptyDetailsInvisibleBackgroundsDialogueGesturesSpeakersEmpty SpaceFacialPeople TalkingFacial Expression Book:Writing for children and teen-agers Source: Writing for children and teen-agers
“I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.” WantWellsSometimesImaginationSpaceCareersReaderHopefullyRememberedDiverseExplorersUnderwaterPromoters Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.” ThinkingWayLongSoundLinesSpaceReaderBreathsMusicalDrivingSymbolsHillsBridgesEtcTrafficPausesUrgencyIndicationSteepIcyIntersectionsLong Lines Author:Adrienne Rich
“I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.” BookIdeasSpaceGraceReaderConversationDemocratic Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.” WantGivingLittlesSpaceKnowingReaderMessagesBoxingProseChinsClausesTelegraph Book:Fumblerules: a lighthearted guide to grammar and good usage Source: Fumblerules: a lighthearted guide to grammar and good usage
“I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.” IfsWantFirstsKindChildrenI CanLightAgeSoundSpaceCenturyReaderCostSafeChaosOneselfExcuseLoyaltyDietsInsultHostGlancesAlasWombCosmeticsAsylumsEnchantmentDividingSafe And Sound Author:Jean Cocteau
“I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the reader can insert themselves into it, and there is a certain kind of architectural space which is totalitarian, which does not allow you to do that.” ThinkingKindDoeArtCertainLiteratureSpaceReaderVoidListenersViewersSpectatorsInsert Author:Jonathan Meades
“To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form of memoir that creates an eerie reader space of intimacy that is only "real" in the space of the text.” KindRealHappensFormArtistCertainSpaceSuccessfulReaderMemoirAll KindsIntimacyEerie Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I think the online space can be a free space, in that we are not reliant online on the publishing industry or readers who just don't get it.” ThinkingSpaceIndustryReaderOnlinePublishingPublishing Industry Author:Kate Zambreno
“Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.” GivingImportantMovingSpaceReaderResponseActive Author:Leni Zumas
“At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.” ShouldKindStoriesEyeMovingSpaceReaderPagesCoreComicHer EyesTime And SpaceRough Times Author:Gene Luen Yang