it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

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 | 0621

Does it matter -- if the shoe fits? Well yeah, if it doesn’t truly fit. There are four main differences between men and women’s feet: a narrower heel cup (where the shoe grips the heel), a wider forefoot leading to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0622

Anyone with a voice today has a very public platform—blogging, Twitter, Facebook, etc.—and yet for all of this potential, nothing has changed. So what’s going on here? I’m beginning to believe that we don’t want answers, that we ...

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Quote of the Day | 0622

there were plenty of structural reasons -- economic, political, social -- why the Soviet Union should have collapsed as it did, yet they fail to explain fully how it happened when it happened. How, that is, between 1985 and 1989, ...

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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 | 0626

"You have turned your back on common men, on their elementary needs and their restricted time and intelligence," H.G. Wells complained to Joyce after reading "Finnegans Wake." That didn't faze him. "The demand that I make of my reader," Joyce ...

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Quote of the Day | 0627

many of the most creative people in a range of fields are introverts who are comfortable working in solitary conditions in which they can focus attention inward. Steve Wozniak, the engineer who founded Apple with Steve Jobs, is a prime ...

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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 | 0628

Phase three: England lose to a former wartime enemy. In five of their last seven World Cups, they went out against either Germany or Argentina. The matches fit seamlessly into the British tabloid view of history, except for the outcome. England’s ...

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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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Quote of the Day | 0701

Writing describes a range of activities, like farming. Plowing virgin fields—writing new scenes—demands freshness, but there’s also polishing to be done, fact-checking, character-autobiography writing, realigning the text after you’ve made a late decision that affects earlier passages—that kind of work ...

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Quote of the Day | 0703

When presented with unwelcome scientific evidence, it seems, in a desperate attempt to retain some consistency in their world view, people would rather conclude that science in general is broken. This is an interesting finding. Ben Goldacre, 'When the scientific ...

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Quote of the Day | 0704

Comics, as it happens, look magnificent on tablets. But no one in the comics industry is really ready for what that magnificence implies. Sales of periodical comics are falling, and there’s no iTunes Store equivalent to sell them digitally—no single ...

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Quote of the Day | 0704

I became a bit less of a book-collector (or, perhaps, book-fetishist) after I published my first novel. Perhaps, at some subconscious level, I decided that since I was now producing my own first editions, I needed other people's less. I ...

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Quote of the Day | 0704

The first edition of Montaigne’s Essais was published in 1580, at only about a third of its eventual length. He had cobbled it together over the preceding decade. Its audience, argues Desan, was really just one man: King Henry III. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0705

The practice of fiction is no longer a vocation. It has become a profession, and professions are not characterized by creative mischief. Artistic vocations are about embracing more and more of the world with your will; professions are insular affairs ...

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Quote of the Day | 0705

Behind the laughter, James hankered after seriousness, plugging away like Sisyphus at poetry and critical essays, and later some fiction. "I still suffer from a blurred image", he says, "but I don't mind." (I suspect he does.) Defensively, he celebrates ...

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Quote of the Day | 0706

we got erotic novels, first crack out of the box, once we had printing presses. It took a century and a half for the Royal Society to start publishing the first scientific journal in English. So even with the sacred ...

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Quote of the Day | 0707

Michael typed in the “U.S. Declaration of Independence” in upper case, because there was no lower case yet. He mentioned where the 5 K file was stored to the 100 users of the embryonic internet of the time, though without ...

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Quote of the Day | 0707

you can't opt out from having information collected, retained and analyzed. Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, "Erasing all digital footprints 'impossible'"

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Quote of the Day | 0709

there are new power centers, like Facebook and Google, and they have an incredible amount of power to shape what people know and don't know, just as much as, and in a lot of ways more than, the New ...

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Quote of the Day | 0711

With “popular highlights,” even when we manage to turn off Twitter and the television and sit down to read a good book, there will a chorus of readers turning the pages along with us, pointing out the good bits. Before ...

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Quote of the Day | 0714

In books we find a revealed truth; on the screen we assemble our own truth from pieces. On networked screens everything is linked to everything else. The status of a new creation is determined not by the rating given ...

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Quote of the Day | 0714

Global communication is taking over these major languages. I’m currently reading some Greek detective thrillers by Petros Markaris and it would be fairly easy to translate them into English because they are in a form that is familiar to us ...

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Quote of the Day | 0715

Studies by other researchers have observed similar phenomena when addressing education, health care reform, immigration, affirmative action, gun control, and other issues that tend to attract strong partisan opinion. Kuklinski calls this sort of response the “I know I’m right” ...

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Quote of the Day | 0715

In simple terms, if we can find a piece of information online, we're less likely to remember the information itself. However, if the information isn't easily accessible online (and we know this), we're more likely to remember the information. Could this ...

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Quote of the Day | 0716

Journalism is not given much respect. Journalists themselves, particularly in my generation, didn’t take their jobs very seriously. I take it very seriously. This is a craft. This is an art form. I’m writing stories, just like fiction writers, only ...

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Quote of the Day | 0716

It has become increasingly clear to me over these last 10 years, in which I have written more regularly than before, that the more I write the worse I become. More self-absorbed, less sensitive to the needs of others, less ...

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Quote of the Day | 0717

Watching that trend, I find my grief for the state of civilization comes with a guilty surge of relief. Sure, I would miss books — and so, by the way, would my children — but at least the death of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0718

A lot of people think that caricature is about picking out someone’s worst feature and exaggerating it as far as you can,” Seiler says. “That’s wrong. Caricature is basically finding the truth. And then you push the truth. Ben Austen, 'What ...

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Quote of the Day | 0720

"Films won and books lost. That's the story of the 20th century – the story of where the stories went," Toby Litt observes. An emphasis on strong plot and the rejection of fiction's digressive powers seems to be the order ...

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Quote of the Day | 0721

Novels are easier to read. People settle into them. You don't have to be quite so attentive. People are always asking me why more people don't read short stories, given the press of time we all experience now. It would seem ...

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Quote of the Day | 0722

readers pay for their literacy with a slight reduction in their ability to perceive faces. 'Reading may involve unlearning an older skill'

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Quote of the Day | 0723

Books are less valuable as signifiers, and people who you ought to be talking to, some of them don’t write books. Clay Shirky in a conversation with Andrew Keen

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Quote of the Day | 0723

It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters—which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your ...

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Quote of the Day | 0723

The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. It is also one of the most difficult, because the amusement always has to be newer and on ...

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Quote of the Day | 0725

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot. Alan Bennett, 'Baffled at a Bookcase' Boeklog on Bennett

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Quote of the Day | 0725

Privacy protects us from being unfairly judged out of context on the basis of snippets of private information that have been exposed against our will; but we can be just as unfairly judged out of context on the basis of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0726

comics storytelling is entirely predicated upon the print technologies of the late 1930s. We have six panels of page on average because that was the optimum numbers of panels to put on a page in a periodical of something like ...

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Quote of the Day | 0726

old-fashioned book reviews are not dead yet. Well written reviews still have a lot to offer (and I’m not just saying that because I’m a reviewer). While they may not be the best source for a what-to-read-next list, they do ...

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Quote of the Day | 0727

The one story you read may paint a wildly inaccurate picture, while with the depth of a book—even a biased one—at least gives you some sense of scope. David Mekelburg, 'The News Gets Me High'

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Quote of the Day | 0728

things happen way too fast. I always bring up the example of Tolstoy writing about the War of 1812 in the 1860s. The horse was a horse and a carriage was a carriage. Tolstoy didn't have to worry about the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0729

Consider, now, the position of a critic condemned to stretch this experience into material for a column article or for a whole chapter in a book. Obviously, he soon finds it insufficient for this purpose. What, then, is he to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0729

Today we have books, photographs, computers and an entire superstructure of external devices to help us store our memories outside our brains, but it wasn’t so long ago that culture depended on individual memories. A trained memory was not just ...

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Quote of the Day | 0730

[...] it’s become apparent that selling ad space is an unsustainable revenue model for media as a whole. It is from the chaos of this moment that the relationship between content and capital will be defined for generations to come. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0802

We love Adrian partly because he is a failure. How much have you failed? Did you fail school exams? I failed everything – including cycling proficiency. Sue Townsend, 'I hate it when people call me a national treasure' Boeklog on Sue Townsend

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Quote of the Day | 0803

Books will, in short, suffer the fate that has already befallen letters sent by mail: preciousness.Mark Oppenheimer, 'Judging a Girl by Her Cover'

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Quote of the Day | 0803

We have developed a vocabulary for abstract concepts that makes our prose more efficient, but also more lifeless. In eras before that technical vocabulary had arisen, one had to reach for metaphors, idioms, and images to convey an abstract idea. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0804

We often do not know what we like or why we like what we do. Our preferences are riddled with unconscious biases, easily swayed by contextual and social influences. There is less chance than we think that we will like ...

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Quote of the Day | 0804

For decades, I religiously read the op-ed pages of the New York Times but recently I've stopped because every op-ed is so closely tied to a newspeg that the thinking never gets very far from current events. So I've recently ...

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Quote of the Day | 0805

There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. The wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0805

I'm sorry Bookslut is not joining in the near-unanimous praise of your book, which has obviously made you believe you are entitled to nothing but. However. I read your book, and I found it fundamentally dishonest. My reviewer stands by ...

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Quote of the Day | 0807

Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses. When enlisted by charismatic leaders and turned into manifestos, dogmas and social policy, they've been the foundations for religions and political systems. When a storyteller has held an audience captive around ...

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Quote of the Day | 0807

there is a great inexorable power in expectation—as social beings, we want to like things we’re supposed to like, and we’re uncomfortable standing at the platform, watching the bullet train of popular opinion shriek by. Human nature, of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0807

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. Robert Hughes, 'quotes: 20 of the best'

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Quote of the Day | 0808

Chandler and Rankin rightly dismiss the supposed dichotomy between crime fiction and “literary” fiction as a red herring. Despite the persistent assumption that some literary forms are inherently more formulaic than others, all writing relies on genre markers, and “genre” ...

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Quote of the Day | 0809

if the story works, you become the character, right? You agree with their early point of view, and then when it gets shattered, you are shattered with it. So in the storytelling, you want to manipulate the evidence and the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0810

The implications of our reading brain’s plasticity are neither simple nor transient. The connections between how and what we read and what is written are critically important to today’s society. In a milieu that continuously confronts us with a glut ...

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Quote of the Day | 0812

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence. Saul Bellow

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Quote of the Day | 0812

“We found the people who read the [whole] story changed a bit in their personality,” Oatley says. “What we found interesting was that they all changed in somewhat different ways.” Toronto scientists determine that fiction can change personalities

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Quote of the Day | 0812

All those forms, artificial as they seem to us today, would have appeared as natural and as right to their practitioners as the standard novel does today. Artificial though that novel form is, with its simplifications and distortions, its artificial ...

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Quote of the Day | 0812

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003, [...] Google CEO Eric Schmidt, at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA

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Quote of the Day | 0812

The Internet comment thread horizon may seem messy to some. But after more than a century of carefully curated letters to the editor, it may be time for the wisdom of the average reader to emerge on the battlefield. Elizabeth Harball, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0813

“The internet is the largest group of people who care about reading and writing ever assembled in history,” posited the SXSW publishers’ panel in 2009. But what kind of reading, what kind of writing? The internet is the largest group ...

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Quote of the Day | 0814

I wondered again at the horrible obstacle course we make of other people’s childhoods after we’ve f***ed up our own. A.A. GIll, on his dyslexia Boeklog on Gill

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Quote of the Day | 0815

It's curious that some of the most vociferous critics of the internet – those who predict that it will produce generations of couch potatoes, with minds of mush – are the very sorts of people who are benefiting most from ...

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Quote of the Day | 0816

I've been writing for a living for around 15 years now and whatever method I practise remains a mystery. It's random. Some days I'll rapidly thump out an article in a steady daze, scarcely aware of my own breath. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0816

Every single hour of TV watched after the age of 25 shortened the viewer's life expectancy by just under 22 minutes, according to an extrapolation of these figures. Daily exercise 'may prolong life' (AFP)

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Quote of the Day | 0817

I read for the pleasure of the sentence structure, or the use of language, or the control of metaphor, or for a sense of humor. Or the civilizing voice that is not particularly surprised or shocked by the world's wickedness. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0818

for me, as a reader, the more dangerous problem with unsuccessful stories is usually much less complex: I am bored. And I would remain bored even if the story were packed with pages of detail aimed at establishing verisimilitude. I ...

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Quote of the Day | 0820

we also feel, do we not, that originality is at least a symptom of creative worth. Larkin certainly felt so. In a letter of 1974 he quotes a remark by Clive James – “originality is not an ingredient of poetry, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0821

I have read the arguments from publishers—the ones that say that we eBook readers are cheap and don’t understand the value of books, independent of the costs involved with printing, transporting, storing, and keeping them on shelves waiting to be ...

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Quote of the Day | 0822

around that time, Bill Gates uttered one of the smartest things he has ever said: “The future of search is verbs.” But he said it at a private dinner and it never spread. To me, the meaning was clear: when people ...

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Quote of the Day | 0822

Where Simon is different from other middle-aged mathematicians is that he doesn't mope over his lost youth. He doesn't want to sit all day in a neon-lit office block working out the 13th Fourier coefficient of a modular function on ...

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Quote of the Day | 0823

I’m already on record as believing that ebook distribution and retail should be based on a modular ecosystem, open file formats and standardised services. I should be able to buy a book from any retailer, have it automatically download to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0824

De Botton, who classes himself as a writer rather than a philosopher, concurs. "For the past 150 years, to be a philosopher meant to be employed by a university, and with that came a certain approach to footnoting, teaching the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0825

I have never read or heard about anything to do with the writing of fiction that fits, exactly, my own experience, and I now believe it must be difficult. If fiction grows out of the layers of time, memory, imagination ...

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Quote of the Day | 0826

without reading, there can be no learning; without learning, there can be no sense of a larger world; without the sense of a larger world, there can be no ardor to find it; without ardor, where is joy? Helen Vendler, 'Reading ...

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Quote of the Day | 0826

What we crave most in art, what we reward more than anything else, is surprise. Ed Finn, 'Art by Algorithm'

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Quote of the Day | 0828

Imagine the silence if people said only what they know! Karel Capek, cited in:'Believe in People: the Essential Karel Capek' Boeklog on Capek

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Quote of the Day | 0828

When that trust is undermined, the first thing is loss of efficiency, and the next is a total breakdown. This is why no one with the best interests of science, or society, at heart can afford to openly lie, whatever side ...

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Quote of the Day | 0829

Look at the all the programs of the European Union or of Nato. In these bureaucratic institutions scientific collaborations are goals in themselves. The more partners you find in more different countries the higher your chances are of getting their ...

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Quote of the Day | 0829

if different languages influence our minds in different ways, this is not because of what our language allows us to think but rather because of what it habitually obliges us to think about. Guy Deutscher, 'Does Your Language Shape How You ...

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Quote of the Day | 0829

In your book of essays Cultural Amnesia you put forward your idea of a "new humanism". Do you fear the current political situation will threaten that? You must excuse my apparent frivolity, but when I was very young, Hitler and Stalin ...

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Quote of the Day | 0830

"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For [Andrea] Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold ...

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Quote of the Day | 0830

I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their ...

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Quote of the Day | 0830

I am looking forward to having my mind changed a lot in the coming years. I think we'll be surprised by how many things we assumed were "natural" for humans are not really, and how many impossible ideas are possible. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0831

What we love about fiction writers is their willingness to dare this submergence, to give up, in behalf of brute reality, the voice of a wise and presentable man. The critic comes to us in a suit and tie. He ...

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Quote of the Day | 0831

the focus of modern fact checks is rarely what we 20th-century fact-checkers would have underlined as checkable facts. Instead, Web fact-checkers generally try to show how articles presented in earnest are actually self-parody. These acts of reclassifying journalism as ...

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Quote of the Day | 0901

Nothing extraordinary had happened in Iraq in 2002 or 2003 to provoke an Anglo-American invasion. We learn in kindergarten that two wrongs do not make a right, and that the ends do not justify the means. Above all, international order ...

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Quote of the Day | 0903

Harold Innis suggested that the history of culture itself was characterized by a balance between media that persisted in time -- think stone inscriptions and heavy parchment books -- and those offering the greatest portability across space, like paper, radio, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0904

at the moment the internet seems to be trying to force us to. I wonder if the recent excesses of kindness and cruelty in reviewing serve the same purpose as shouting in a dark cave. How large is the cave? ...

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Quote of the Day | 0904

Computer power doubles every 18 months, and its cost is declining at a similarly dramatic rate. This gives hope for worldwide enlightenment, even in those parts of the world that are still in thrall to nationalism, to tribalism, and to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0904

learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from ...

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Quote of the Day | 0905

In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long – sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script. It's too ...

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