{"id":38546,"date":"2020-10-19T06:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38546"},"modified":"2020-10-18T21:47:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T08:47:08","slug":"i-love-this-quote-by-gordon-lish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/10\/19\/i-love-this-quote-by-gordon-lish\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love This Quote by Gordon Lish"},"content":{"rendered":"

“[Your book is not about] what happens to the people on the page: it’s about what happens to readers in their hearts and minds”<\/span><\/h3>\n

~ Gordon Lish<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

When I first read this quote, I felt one hundred per cent agreement. I thought, “Wow, that’s so true!”<\/em><\/p>\n

And then, I thought, “Yes, but the two aren’t wholly disconnected. They can’t be, because in order for something to happen to readers’ hearts and minds, something of reasonable moment <\/em>does have to happen on the page.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the quote speaks to me because I feel that a story can’t just be a matter of ‘this happened, then this<\/em> happened, and then that<\/em> happened.’ It’s all about the feeling, within and between the characters, which in turn works on the reader, to engage, or repel, or enthrall, depending on the story…<\/p>\n

So I come back to loving the quote! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

In terms of who Gordon Lish is, he is an American writer and editor, born in 1934, with a long career as editor with outlets\/organisations such as Esquire, Knopf, and the Quarterly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“[Your book is not about] what happens to the people on the page: it’s about what happens to readers in their hearts and minds” ~ Gordon Lish — When I first read this quote, I felt one hundred per cent agreement. I thought, “Wow, that’s so true!” And then, I thought, “Yes, but the two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38550,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38546\/revisions\/38550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}