My personal approach to literature

I read every author purely on one-on-one terms. Doesn't matter who. He or she either has something to say to me or doesn't.

I read every author as though I were a member of his or her contemporary audience; not as a student in a classroom accepting greatness as a given and swallowing spoon-fed thematic insights from the swooping-airplane of an instructor's hand.

I read every author with one simple condition in place: Entertain me, inform me, challenge me, inspire me, shake, rattle, or roll my soul. Be ye literary giant or novice novelist, do one or some or all of these things—or suffer utter rejection by me. Bitch.

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