Reading and Writing

“In all the academic fluff that is thrown at us when high-brow people start blabbing about the importance of reading, this is never mentione...

"How come so many people in the world are drawn towards stories and plots that never even occurred!” "If we explore this dynamic ...

"When we read a thrilling-but-predictable bestseller, “the text sort of grabs us and takes us on a roller-coaster ride,” “and we all so...

“When the Britains and America are fused into one book market; when it is recognized that letters, which as to their material and their aim ...

"The world is divided between readers and non-readers – and the difference between the two is enormous and unbridgeable. Readers absorb...

"For an important intellectual product to be immediately weighty, a deep relationship or concordance has to exist between the life of i...

"Reading became like dreaming in that well-written compositions act much like dreams in the sense that certain things are disguised or ...

"When it comes to choosing books to read, the majority of our decisions are based on heuristics of one sort or another, including: cove...

"the literary fake—a piece of fiction that pretends in some way to be true. Is it fact or fiction? Is it good fun or something more dis...

While I respect the need for publishers to vet titles for commercial potential, there’s something inherently broken about a system that reje...