I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.
Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.
The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.
Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.
Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus. ” “No doubt,” Percy agreed. “Awesome. ” Hedge grinned. “Let’s go.
My writerly aspirations are pretty simple: to provide as many readers as possible with the same sort of wonderful immersion that I myself get from fantasy novels - and to make enough money to help feed my kids while doing so.
Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.