it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

Quote of the Day | 0211

As adulthood settles on me—no passing fad, it turns out, but a chronic condition—I’m increasingly drawn back to the deeply engaged reading of my childhood. The books have changed, and my absorption is not always as total as it once ...

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Quote of the Day | 0213

When we read, Dr. Hedge explained, a series of ocular muscles jump around and can cause strain, regardless of whether we are looking at pixels or paper. “While you’re reading, your eyes make about 10,000 movements an hour. It’s ...

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Quote of the Day | 0215

The lack of a cover immediately alters your purchasing habits. As soon as I got the ebook, I went on a virtual shopping spree, starting with the stuff I thought I should read – Wolf Hall, that kind of thing ...

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Quote of the Day | 0216

Mere reviewing, however conscientiously and competently it is done, is plainly a much inferior business. Like writing poetry, it is chiefly a function of intellectual immaturity. The young literatus just out of the university, having as yet no capacity for ...

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Quote of the Day | 0216

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0219

I know what I think this is full of. Of arrogance, and pomposity, and what Philip Larkin liked to call the smell of bum. Here's a nice little exercise: find a book, or an article, or a website that has ...

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Quote of the Day | 0219

Long books are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. E.M. Forster, as quoted in: Why modern novelists need to watch their weight

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Quote of the Day | 0219

No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as ...

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3. Only bad writers think that their work is really good. Anne Enright, 'Ten Rules for Writing Fiction' [ part 2]

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If I were a publisher today I would consider a renewable rental model for all e-book downloads—the "lending library" technique of the Depression era—that more accurately reflects the conditional relationship, enforced by digital rights management software, between content provider and ...

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For Jobs, consistency was truly the hobgoblin of little minds (he saw little minds everywhere he looked) and he did his best to prove Emerson’s maxim in his own life. He hung a pirate flag on the top of his ...

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Quote of the Day | 0224

7. A book is an object fixed in time. A book can tell us about its status in history. If we look through first editions of Moby Dick or Leaves of Grass, we find that they give away information not ...

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Quote of the Day | 0225

What a formal description does is to show what a book is about in relation to the form in which the subject matter has been shaped or located. In order to write such a review, let’s say of a novel, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0226

the particular form of intelligence associated with book-learning (and all that this entails) is undoubtedly on the wane, with the “extended mind” of the smart phone increasingly replacing our own memories, and the hive-mindedness of the web usurping our notions ...

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Quote of the Day | 0227

in the end, we all work in the dark. We are blind. We can’t see what we’re doing. We exist in a cosmology of not-seeing. We have to take things on faith. And in the end, we just have to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0229

In the twentieth century people stopped just reading novels and poems and started studying them.Tim Parks, 'The Writer’s Job'

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Quote of the Day | 0301

We are asked to believe, usually by critics, that the most important factor in our response to a book should be its objective quality -- a good book is a good book -- but we know that's not true. Mood ...

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Quote of the Day | 0301

If reading heightens your responses, shapes your idea of the world, gives you a sense of the purpose of life, then it is not surprising if, over time, reading should come to play a proportionately smaller role in the context ...

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Quote of the Day | 0301

Although some times I have felt that I held fire in my hands and spread a page with shining—I have never lost the weight of clumsiness, of ignorance, of aching inability. John Steinbeck, 'A book is like a man'

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Mrs. Lessing writes that she wanted to be reviewed on merit, ''as a new writer, without the benefit of a 'name.' '' The conclusion Mrs. Lessing has drawn from her experience as Jane Somers is that publishers and reviewers should ...

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Quote of the Day | 0304

I had become somewhat uneasy about throwing my reviews into what seemed like a great silence. Readers never responded to my reviews. I received only one letter from a Yorkshire Post reader, and that was a horticultural lady who responded ...

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Quote of the Day | 0304

For her, though, fiction remains the best means we have of understanding that madness, the ways in which we fail to connect. "If you took my reading and writing out of my head," Messud says, "I don't know who I ...

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Quote of the Day | 0304

as the poet and critic Donald Davie once put it, a writer who trades on the raw facts of a rough life often “confesses to discreditable sentiments or behavior, but in doing so he demands credit for having the courage ...

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The piece of writing I usually most enjoy doing is inevitably the thing I'm not supposed to be doing, so it can seem illicit. I like to work on something over a long period, returning to it repeatedly, adding, subtracting ...

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Quote of the Day | 0307

one of the nicest things about reading is that you can do it without buying anything, and it lets you take a time out from being a productive cog in the economic machine. On the Demise of Publishing, Reading, and Everything ...

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Quote of the Day | 0309

Dear Paul, You seem to treat sport as a mainly aesthetic affair, and the pleasures of sports spectatorship as mainly aesthetic pleasures. I am dubious about this approach, and for a number of reasons. Why is football big business, while ballet—whose ...

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Quote of the Day | 0312

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. 'Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best'

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Quote of the Day | 0313

The simple truth of Wired is that Bob Woodward, deploying all of the talent and resources for which he is famous, produced something that is a failure as journalism. And when you imagine Woodward using the same approach to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0314

In my experience, you always think you know what you’re doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn’t and you couldn’t. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human ...

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Quote of the Day | 0314

information on reader engagement could help a publisher acquire titles more effectively and market them better. So the sale of the data surrounding books could represent a new revenue stream, opening up the possibility that books could be sold at ...

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Quote of the Day | 0315

I also wonder if, in showing a willingness not to pursue even an excellent book to the death, a reader isn’t actually doing the writer a favor, exonerating him or her, from the near impossible task of getting out of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0317

it's time that book reviewers everywhere delete the clichés and start giving readers the unvarnished truth.Michelle Kerns 'The top 20 most annoying book reviewer cliches and how to use them all in one meaningless review'

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Quote of the Day | 0318

There’s a tension between tools that encourage attentive thought and the reading of longer articles, and the cultural trend that everything becomes a constant stream of little bits of information through which we make sense of the world. So far, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0319

how many people do you know who want to carry 350 books at one time? I call this situation "phantom value," and it's something that happens a lot to tech companies. They've made a product without really thinking through the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0319

Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life. Annie ...

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Quote of the Day | 0320

online research enables scholars to power-search for nuggets of information that might support their theses, saving them the time of wading through stacks of material that might prove marginal but that might have also prompted them to reconsider or refine ...

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There are critics that you like reading but you don’t trust—like Helen Vendler. Or James Wood—I love reading him, but when he tells me a book is good, I don’t actually believe it. I believe he thinks so. But I ...

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reviewers will have to think harder about how to speak to readers and not kind of lapse into this connect-the-dots book reviewing that you used to see in some newspaper review sections. Laura Miller, on the Book Review: "Crisis or Renaissance?"

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Quote of the Day | 0325

these modern enthusiasms – “faith” in the market, hatred of Islam - are not in fact complex phenomena but rather shallow and politically driven ones, indeed to a great extent simply expressions of class and perceived national self-interest lightly dressed ...

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when it comes to reading itself, I remain quietly relieved that it provides a fragile refuge where I can do something I don't have to "share". I don't have to mash up the themes to create something new or re-tweet ...

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Quote of the Day | 0326

one of the drawbacks to the Kindle is that we can actually forget the exact title of the book we are reading because it no longer passes before our eyes each time we pick it up. Stephen Hough, 'Is the Kindle ...

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Quote of the Day | 0330

We care more about the parts and less about the entire. We are into snippets and smidgens and clips and tweets. We are not only a fragmented society, but a fragment society. And the result: What we gain is the knowledge ...

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Quote of the Day | 0401

The formula is this: Say a few harmless (often downright irrelevant) words about the writer, his previous books or his recent successes, say some meaningless things about what a book in the given genre means (reiterating the point of view ...

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Quote of the Day | 0401

Due to the nature of its content, American Psycho is still sold shrink-wrapped in Australia and New Zealand, a practice Bret Easton Ellis has called “adorable” and “cute”. Last year, a bookstore in Adelaide was visited by local police after ...

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Quote of the Day | 0403

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know ...

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Quote of the Day | 0404

The cultivated not only know a great deal but, more important, they know what is significant--they know, not to put too fine a point on it, what is really worth knowing. Part of being a cultivated person is knowing what to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0404

Telling stories, constructing narratives out of the chaos of our lives, fantasizing about what could be — they’re all in our blood. Putting it down on paper is an act of optimism. It’s willful, and it helps us make sense ...

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Quote of the Day | 0404

Today, longform is a 1,500-word article. Evan Williams has this online publishing platform called Medium, which is these little essays, but it’s longform compared to tweets or Facebook updates. In reality, if I write an 800-word piece on CNN, it ...

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Quote of the Day | 0407

Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0410

In 20 years, the space of one generation, print books will be as rare as vinyl LPs. You’ll still be able to find them in artsy hipster stores, but that’s about it. So the great advantage of e-books is also ...

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Quote of the Day | 0410

In the early days I thought it was a condition sine qua non that you had to believe, otherwise it’s a bad book. Then I think it changed. Actually, with Gantenbein I took the position that everything was offered as ...

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Quote of the Day | 0411

What does the modern reader want in a book review? They want authenticity. They want honesty. They want to identify and relate to YOU, not to be impressed by your fluency with words like "limn" or "luminous," or "magisterial." Michelle ...

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Quote of the Day | 0411

6. It is getting harder and harder every year to sell books. Many book categories have become entirely saturated, with a surplus of books on every topic. It is increasingly difficult to make any book stand out. Each book is ...

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Quote of the Day | 0414

Who reads fiction? Who reads Amis, Barnes, Faulks, Boyd, Jacobson, Cartwright as well as Howard, Mantel, the two Smiths (Zadie and Ali), Tremain, Drabble, Ellmann, Byatt, Freud, O’Farrell? The answer is: women. Men who read fiction are in a minority. They ...

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Quote of the Day | 0417

How to respond, then, to this now permanent condition of overproduction? With cheerful skepticism. With gratitude for those rare occasions when we come across a book that speaks to us personally. With forgiveness for those critics and publishers who induce ...

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Quote of the Day | 0418

After the tyranny of the military dictatorships he realised that the armed road had been a disaster, that the Cuban revolution could not be imitated blindly. The birth of new social movements and the Bolivarian victories were both a source ...

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As we revisit the objects of our reading, like recognizable but weathered landmarks, there can be no full going back, because we are not exactly the same people we were; but the consolation of rereading is the knowledge that we ...

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Quote of the Day | 0423

The book has gas and runs out of gas, fills up again, goes dry. It is a 742-page work that reads as if it is fifteen hundred pages long.... At certain points, reading the work can even be said to resemble ...

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Quote of the Day | 0425

Into the vacuum left by the humanities comes science, which by its own admission is unconcerned with the large questions of meaning and purpose. Even so, on campus and elsewhere, science is now taken as the final authority on any ...

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Quote of the Day | 0426

Back in 2009, O'Leary did this for one publisher, O'Reilly Media, which publishes technical books. Surprisingly, he found that sales actually increased after their books showed up on pirate sites. Piracy seems to have boosted sales. O'Leary says people may ...

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Quote of the Day | 0430

As literary fiction, Gatsby holds up the table for everything we've been told for decades books are "supposed to do": to set up what's going to happen at the end of the story on the very first page, and to ...

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Many earlier novels are still deceptively short by modern standards. A typical SF novel of the 1960s was 70,000 words long. By the 1980s, 80,000 words was the norm; by the 1990s it had bloated to 100-120,000 words. Why?Charles Stross, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0502

If any inkling about the way the world works and the manner in which human nature is constituted were to be remotely available to me during my stay on the planet, I should have the best chance of discovering it ...

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Quote of the Day | 0503

A daily dose of reading may lengthen your lifespan. A team at Yale University followed more than 3600 adults over the age of 50 for 12 years. They discovered that people who reported reading books for 30 minutes a day ...

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most acts of revision are nothing more than attempts to make sure what you have written fits current rules and fashions. Conformity isn’t revision. Jim Heynen, 'Becoming Your Own Best Critic'

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Quote of the Day | 0510

Bookshelves will survive in the homes of serious digital-age readers, but their contents will be much more judiciously curated. Michael Agresta, 'What Will Become of the Paper Book?'

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Quote of the Day | 0510

If all money is controlled electronically (or digitally, as it is now), it can be switched off instantaneously. I’m just saying. Margaret Atwood, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale is being read very differently now’ Boeklog on The Handmaid's Tale

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Quote of the Day | 0513

by putting a work forth into the marketplace (of ideas), you are acknowledging that it may be debated, cut apart, written about, or otherwise dissected in ways that are beyond the author’s control and may make him or her uncomfortable. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0514

Amazon reviewers hold two principles in common: “First, a book, whether nonfiction or fiction, must supply 'uplift.' Who wants to spend hours on a downer? And even more demandingly, the characters in a novel must be likable. Uplift and pleasantness: ...

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Quote of the Day | 0516

it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. Even Einstein will have spent large parts of his life thinking about ...

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Quote of the Day | 0516

Relative to consumer reviews, professional critics are less favorable to first-time authors. This suggests that one potential advantage of consumer reviews is that they are quicker to identify new and unknown books.'What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the ...

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Gas had one irresistible advantage, however. It was bright – at least compared with anything else the pre-electric world knew. The average room with gas was 20 times brighter than it had been before. It wasn't an intimate light – ...

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Quote of the Day | 0523

Moderator: Welcome to Obsolete Anonymous! I've gathered you all here to welcome our latest member, the Print Industry. Print Industry: Hello, everyone. But there's been a mistake. I don't belong here. (chuckles all around) [...] J.A. Konrath, 'Is Print Dead?'

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Quote of the Day | 0523

When people ask whether I've read this or that book, I've found that a safe answer is, "You know, I don't read, I write." That shuts them up. Umberto Eco, 'I'm a writer not a reader' In Nederland inmiddels al verramsjt, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0528

The world is full of jolly places but these do not interest me at all. I hate vacations and luxurious hotels are no fun to read about. I want to read about the miserable, or difficult, or inhospitable places; the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0529

actors, playwrights and novelists are not literally attempting to deceive us, because the rules are laid out in advance: come to the theatre, or open this book, and we’ll lie to you. Perhaps this is why we felt it necessary ...

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Quote of the Day | 0529

The essayist is interested in thinking about himself thinking about things. We believe our opinions on everything from politics to pizza parlors to be of great import. This explains our generosity in volunteering them to complete strangers. And as D.I.Y. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0530

to those who think it is fictionally exaggerated I only say try it first and see. Because it can never be as bad in fiction as it is in real life. Ken Kesey, 'Letters of Note'

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Quote of the Day | 0531

Today, too, in the literary world, a certain aristocracy sees its sun setting: the aristocracy of critics, editors, publishers, and tastemakers, still overwhelmingly white, if slightly less overwhelmingly male, who may be just beginning to realize that—for simple demographic reasons, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0531

searching for answers in libraries and books is limited to but one subsection of the world’s population: students and professors and scientists and the odd intellectually rigorous laypeople. Most folks go online for “facts” and read sites like Wikipedia, which ...

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Quote of the Day | 0601

The entire impulse behind Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iBooks assumes that you cannot read a book unless you own it first — and only you can read it unless you want to pass on your device. That goes against the ...

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The critic and erstwhile blogger Lee Siegel, in Against the Machine, a polemic against online habits, makes a list of "five open supersecrets" about bloggers: Not everyone has something valuable to say. Few people have anything original to say. Only a handful of ...

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BLVR: So how do you read? Do you read as a writer, an academic, or a fan? MS: No one ever gave me any flashcards telling me the difference between those things. I read like someone who has been subjected ...

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Quote of the Day | 0607

You should never just read for ‘enjoyment.’ Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior; or better yet, your own. Pick ‘hard books.’ Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for ...

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Quote of the Day | 0607

traditional publishers know what their authors sold (how many copies, when, where, in what genre) but they don’t know who bought them. Amazon does – perforce, it’s on Internet, every transaction is written, a complete contract between seller and buyer, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0610

Now that anyone is free to print whatever they wish, they often disregard that which is best and instead write, merely for the sake of entertainment, what would best be forgotten, or, better still be erased from all books. Niccolò Perotti, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0611

the book industry sells “books”. What they need to do is sell their “authors”. Authors now are brands, they are businesses, they are mini-empires. Publishers do nothing to help 95% of their authors build their platforms and their own brands. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0614

Writers perforce read differently from everyone else. Most people ask three questions of what they read: (1) What is being said? (2) Does it interest me? (3) Is it well constructed? Writers also ask these questions, but two others along ...

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Quote of the Day | 0614

The average music buyer is younger than the average book buyer. Young people have long been a primary market for popular music. Young people also tend to have the spare time, the tech savvy, the obliviousness to risk, the constrained ...

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Quote of the Day | 0616

Although new fossil and archaeological evidence continues to mount, the driving force in understanding human evolution today, as Chris Stringer emphasises, is genomic. It is now possible to compare the genomes of Neanderthals with modern humans and with chimpanzees. This ...

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Quote of the Day | 0616

I had become somewhat uneasy about throwing my reviews into what seemed like a great silence. Readers never responded to my reviews. I received only one letter from a Yorkshire Post reader, and that was a horticultural lady who responded ...

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Quote of the Day | 0618

Books are not disappearing, contrary to what you may sometimes hear. Publishing is under pressure. That has always been the case. It is often said that the second book published after Gutenberg invented the printing press was called The Book ...

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Quote of the Day | 0618

I hate to be the one to tell you, but there is no generalizable benefit to having led a life centered on great texts. It is sometimes thought that those whose careers are spent engaging with beautiful and stringent works ...

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Quote of the Day | 0620

A comedy ends with a union and a tragedy ends with a separation -- that is the basic formula we have for the complexities of dramatization. You could add that a comedy is a tragedy postponed. Hans Koning's 'Little Book of Comfort ...

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Quote of the Day | 0620

over the forty years between Claus and the others an important change had occurred. These more recent novels had, yes, been translated, from Norwegian and Dutch into English, but it was nothing like the far more arduous task of translating ...

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Quote of the Day | 0620

“To be a good reader, paradoxically, doesn’t mean being a discriminating reader, it means being an omnivorous reader,” he explains. “You never know what will grab you.” Adam Gopnik in: 'What does it mean for a journalist today to be ...

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Quote of the Day | 0623

“We do not need men like Proust and Joyce; men like this are a luxury, an added fillip that an abundant culture can produce only after the more basic literary need has been filled,” Updike wrote to his parents in ...

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Quote of the Day | 0628

It's precisely because it is not immediate – because it doesn't know what happened five minutes ago in Kazakhstan, or in Charlie Sheen's apartment – that the book matters. Johann Hari , 'How to survive the age of distraction'

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Quote of the Day | 0630

The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold that there are no iron laws. Malcolm Gladwell, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0630

If we wouldn’t describe a book to someone we wanted to sleep with, we shouldn’t write about it. It is time to stop writing—and reading—reviews. The old faiths have passed away; the new age requires a new form. Elizabeth Gumport, 'Against ...

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