“I’ve often described myself as a literary hermit crab. I scuttle around the currents of literature and find a home in someone’s imagined truth. When that imagined truth is my imagined truth, as a person, there is an amazing connection between the author and me. His voice becomes my voice.”
George Guidall
more infosource: actor who narrates audio books describing his process, in “Art of Storytelling Alive and Well in Audio Books,” Morning Edition, NPR, interviewed by Steve Inskeep, November 16, 2010.
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category: audio book, creative process, literature, publishing, truth, voice
medium: radio story
“The Internet culture may produce better conversationalists, but the literary culture still produces better students…It could be that the real debate will not be books versus the Internet but how to build an Internet counterculture that will better attract people to serious learning.”
David Brooks
more infosource: “The Medium is the Medium,” The New York Times, July 8, 2010.
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category: book, conversation, education, Internet, literature, student
medium: Op-Ed
“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”
Kurt Vonnegut
more infosource: A Man Without a Country (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005), 17.
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category: literature, novel, sex, technology, Victorian
medium: nonfiction
“Do you realize that all great literature—Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, The Scarlet Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, The Iliad and The Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, The Bible, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade”—are all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? (Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?)”
Kurt Vonnegut
more infosource: A Man Without a Country (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005), 8-9.
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category: human being, life, literature
medium: nonfiction
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