“A reader’s favorite subject is the reader.”
Derek Thompson • Hit Makers
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“A reader’s favorite subject is the reader.”
“You consider yourself your most fascinating subject.” She’d always thought everyone felt like a lead character onstage, surrounded by sidekicks and villains and love interests.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
Did you know as a child you wanted to be a writer?
No. I wanted to be a reader. I thought everything that needed to be written had already been written or would be. I only wrote the first book because I thought it wasn’t there, and I wanted to read it when I got through. I am a pretty good reader. I love it. It is what I do, really. So, if I can re... See more
Farnam Street • Toni Morrison — Good, but never simple
“I think part of why AI-companion apps have proven so seductive so quickly is that most of our relationships already happen exclusively through the phone,” he said.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
There is one topic that people care more about than any other: themselves. Pick story topics that your listeners will relate to. If
Scott Adams • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
When students talk about the books that light up their imaginations, it crystallizes why they love them—and gives others the chance to catch that enthusiasm.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
Many of us form profound attachments when we read. Sometimes we attach ourselves to characters, imagining them as our friends or lovers or most profound enemies; sometimes a book’s author draws us, perhaps because of a persona he or she projects, perhaps—especially if we are writers or would-be writers ourselves—because we admire and envy.
Alan Jacobs • The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
books. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading; a man will turn over half a library to make one book,” Samuel Johnson said.