Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marine Worker is an interesting illustration of I. W. W. propaganda in use on the Pacific Coast and elsewhere, and written in the vernacular, is intriguing to the average reader. Its communications are signed " Yours for the next big strike, Del. T. R. 598, Card X58406...
...Sinclair Lewis, who kodaks as he goes, has written two best-sellers on the subject, apparently, of what most people are. But Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter, a woman who writes on the theory that " the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began," holds an audience of 45,000,000 men, women and children by telling them what they certainly are not but (presumably) would like...
Letters of praise and blame are easy enough to understand. If a reader enjoys a book immensely, he has, in almost every case, no way whatsoever of thanking the author for the pleasure he has given him except by letter ? and such letters form by far the pleasantest part of any author's mail, no matter how much said author may lie about it. If the reader doesn't like a book, is shocked, offended or proudly discovers some technical mistake?his injured feelings and his professional criticism must, too, be expressed at long distance. And let him have...
...American journalism avoids the things that people are most interested in." Or, rather, the magazine editor is trying to capture the reader's "interest," rather than to discover and discuss the reader's " interests." The editor who is concerned only with capturing the reader's interest is likely to be merely a merchant of sensations; the editor who is concerned primarily with the reader's interests may be, in the best sense of an abused word, a statesman...
...world so basely consecrated to the truth, Fiction (which is the art of lying) is still at least a semi-honorable profession. It is, because it makes a puissant defense, saying: "I make a hero, and my reader imagines all my hero's virtues to himself. I make a villain and my reader estimates that he himself will avoid the deeds and dooms of villainy." And there's the kernel of the cabbage: the reader dreams himself the man whom all the story turns about. There is the power and the pleasure of the lies that we call Fiction...