Sean Rose
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Sean Rose
INTERVIEWER Some people say they can’t understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them? FAULKNER Read it four times.
Jean Stein • The Art of Fiction No. 12
Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
I believe that in nearly every instance where science fiction has successfully ‘predicted’ a turn of events, it’s more true to say that it has inspired that turn of events.
Cultivating Hyperstitions
I still bought many books, but more and more I read in them, rather than being whisked away by them. At some time impossible to pinpoint, I had begun to read more to be informed than to be immersed, much less to be transported.
Maryanne Wolf • Reader, Come Home
Stewart and the board had decided on our pricing plan early on: $9 per user per month, later amended to $8 (“because it felt better”). “Less than the cost of a catered lunch for your team, once a month,” Stewart would say to prospective customers.
getmatter.com • Preparing for launch
Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Cormac McCarthy • No Country for Old Men
Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well shafts, dark barricaded doors.