Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
kojobaffoe.com
The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.
Walter Mosley • This Year You Write Your Novel
“The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading. Spend more time thinking about the inputs.”
You cannot process thoughts or develop perspective while endlessly consuming content, so periodically disconnect from the web, dwell some days in darkness, and then you’ll awaken new insights, for it is only when night obscures the world that it reveals the galaxy.
Gurwinder on Substack
It is easy enough in retrospect to see a book as a screen, a shield, an escape, but at the time there was just the magic—the startling and renewable discovery that a page covered with black markings could, with a slight mental exertion, be converted into an environment, an inward depth populated with characters and animated by diverse excitements.
... See moreSven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Criticism, to me, is ultimately a practice of paying attention.
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
For while it can be many things, serious reading is above all an agency of self-making.