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People are the most interesting books

by marissa | Jun 6, 2012 | Inspirational, Science (Cosmos, Mind & Psychology of Reading)

I was at a friend’s place the other day, nosing through a treasured little book that found him at a flea market, when I discovered this quote. So I stole it for you when he wasn’t looking. (Always steal a truth when you get the chance.) “People are...

Word Magicians

by marissa | May 18, 2012 | Craft of Storytelling (Writing Techniques & Ideas), Science (Cosmos, Mind & Psychology of Reading)

I love magic, and the neuroscience of magic, and I especially love the idea of the “attentional spotlight.” It’s fun to think about how we are these weird, sensitive mammals with semi-uncontrollable focus beams shooting out of the front of our heads...

Fantasy is good for children

by marissa | Mar 27, 2012 | Fantasy, Science (Cosmos, Mind & Psychology of Reading)

It’s awesome when science confirms something you already thought, like that maybe fantasy stories are not bad for you but actually help you function in the real world because they stretch your brain. Researchers at Lancaster University, UK, have completed a...

Humans: the Metaphor Gatherers

by marissa | Jul 14, 2011 | Science (Cosmos, Mind & Psychology of Reading), Science Fiction

Even though I think life and reality is pretty fascinating , I love to go and sit somewhere quiet, all alone, and read a bunch of stuff that is totally made up and often structured in a fairly predictable way. Why is that? What’s so pleasing about reading...
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The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain things in it — to remember, to keep in mind — as they make their way up the hill. If you hand them a yellow Volkswagen and they have to haul this to the top of the mountain — to the end of the story — and they find that this Volkswagen has nothing whatsoever to do with your story, you’re going to have a very irritated reader on your hands.

— Frank Conroy

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To be an editor, you have to be a reader. It’s the number one qualification. Because you could have all the editorial tools, but if you’re not a responsive reader you won’t sense where the problems lie.

— Robert Gottlieb.

Random Quote

The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain things in it — to remember, to keep in mind — as they make their way up the hill. If you hand them a yellow Volkswagen and they have to haul this to the top of the mountain — to the end of the story — and they find that this Volkswagen has nothing whatsoever to do with your story, you’re going to have a very irritated reader on your hands.

— Frank Conroy

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