I trust the readers to build their own visual images. To me, that's part of the wonder of reading.
Interpretation
Reading allows individuals to create their own interpretations and images, enhancing the experience.
In this quote, Michael Connelly emphasizes the unique power of reading, which lies in the reader's ability to form personal visual images and connections with the text. This process not only makes reading more engaging but also enriches the narrative, as each reader brings their own imagination and experience to the story.
In practice
In a book club discussion about the role of imagination in literature.
I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.
The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day.
I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.
I watched 'Kojak' religiously with my father. It was a great bonding time. He loved shows where the stakes were high. Life and death, justice prevailing, things like that. I think that helped set me on the path to what I do now.
You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.
Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.
If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate projects, each started and maintained by distinct circuits in the brain. Pay more attention to one for a moment and you're automatically paying less attention to the other.
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
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