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I never studied writing, but i'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
-Jon Krakauer
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I Never Studied Writing, But I'd Always

Jon Krakauer
I never studied writing, but i'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
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I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'yes, it's a comic. yes, this is fantasy. yes, this is science fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'horror is a bit passe so this is dark fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. so that's why i say i'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'it doesn't read like what i think of as a fantasy'. in that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. or there is more to it than you think.
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We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. it is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.
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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. the dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. a writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
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There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - i'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out there is bad - but there has been a lot of bad fantasy written by people who read a lot of fantasy and so all they keep doing is recycling it.
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. the simplicity of this tool is astounding. so little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train, people that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. in this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. reading is never passive.
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The book is finished by the reader. a good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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