“The business of a boys' author is not to consider political issues, but to entertain the readers, make them as happy as possible.”
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Charles Hamilton" (pages 235-7)
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English writer of school stories 1876–1961Related quotes
that was my objective. I knew the [reader] was never happy all the time. You take the Thing, he’d knock out 50 guys at a time and win — then maybe he’d sit down and kind of reflect on it: “Maybe I hurt somebody or maybe we could have done it some other way” like a human being would think, not like a monster. In other books the guy would knock out the gangs and that would be the end of it. You would see the guys in jail, and that’s it. Or it would say, “Wait until next week.”
Source: 1990, Gary Groth interview
Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. III Survivals (iii) The "Wealth and Power" Argument
“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”
Source: Between the Lines
“The reader collaborates with the author in every book, or The reader is co-author in every book.”
Tout livre a pour collaborateur son lecteur
Source: Biographical notice http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/maurice-barres-499.php on Evene
“The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p. 64
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.”
Source: Styxx
