Tag: quote

The reader’s role

Post date 10 08 2010
Categories In Writing Workshop

I just happened upon this quote:

We’re not as clever as people think. Intelligence is letting the book open so the reader can finish it as they wish.

Colum McCann

It reminded me of one of the epigrams that form the preface to the wonderful The Picture of Dorian Gray.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde

They’re not the only ones who think the reader wirtes as much as the writer.

I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It’s a meeting on the page.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

Paul Auster

What do you think?

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The pleasure of writing

Post date 02 08 2010
Categories In Writing Workshop

[…] I had the opportunity to share some drinks with several students of journalism in their third year. I wasn’t all that surprised to learn that they had no university newspaper or even personal blogs. In fact, they said, they didn’t usually write.

“Why are you studying journalism, then?”, I asked.

“Most people in my class only want to be on TV” one of the students said. And she added, “Actually, several classmates already had boob jobs.”

Jose A. Pérez on Mi mesa cojea

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Plumber’s block

Post date 26 07 2010
Categories In Writing Workshop

I just love this quote:

I don’t believe in writer’s block. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?

Philip Pullman