All throughout our lives, we selectively draw on selected shavings of life events and reflect upon them through consciousness, creating an arranged catalogue of senses, faculties, and mental activities that compose our personal life story.
I don__ think there__ a less elitist thing on earth to do than to try and reach out and connect with another human being . . . And that__ what the best writing does, that__ what art does. It looks a reader in the eye, and it proceeds honestly with that reader, and nakedly. There is a compact there, a bond, a relationship, a union, a symbiosis . . . It__ not about you. Whether you__e a genius or an idiot savant. It__ about the work. The work is more important than you. So it__ not about back-claps and plaudits and __sn__ that author smart._ It__ about, __his book really connected with me. And even though you, my friend, are very different from me, I__ lending it to you, because I think it will connect with you as well._ Community. Across the eras. Between people who have never met, who will never meet, who are nonetheless bound in something together, in different ways.
Quote Detail
I don__ think there__ a less elitist thing on earth to do than to try and reach out and connect with another human being . . . And that__ what the best writing does, that__ what art does. It looks a reader in the eye, and it proceeds honestly with that reader, and nakedly. There is a compact there, a bond, a relationship, a union, a symbiosis . . . It__ not about you. Whether you__e a genius or an idiot savant. It__ about the work. The work is more important than you. So it__ not about back-claps and plaudits and __sn__ that author smart._ It__ about, __his book really connected with me. And even though you, my friend, are very different from me, I__ lending it to you, because I think it will connect with you as well._ Community. Across the eras. Between people who have never met, who will never meet, who are nonetheless bound in something together, in different ways.
Quick Answer
What this quote page tells you
This canonical quote page keeps the full saying, the attributed author, any linked work, and the topic tags together so the quote can be cited from one stable URL.
Related Quotes
More quote cards from the same area
Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so.
People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.
I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.