chuck or another author
i've looked obsessively over every post containing the word "quote," as well as every lame ass inspirational quote site on the web, and paged through all of chuck's books, to no avail.
was it chuck or another author who said something to the effect that reading is fundamentally different from any other form of media/entertainment because it is something you have to go through totally alone and that nobody can really help you deal with what you are reading as with a movie, tv show, etc.
that's pretty much the summation of the quote i believe, but i really wanted to have the exact text just for reference purposes and because it semi-inspired a tattoo i'll be getting quite soon and i'm v. frustrated that i can't find it.
thanks for any help, i know it's a bit random.
congrats, haha. and thanks for the idea. i found a few quotes in interviews that sound like what i was looking for, most specifically this one -
“It helps if you’re writing books to think: ‘What is the real strength of books, what film and music can’t do’,” he says. “I can do things in books that movies could never ever do ’cos they’d cost too much to make. Movies are passive, people may or may not want to see them, but with a book you have a private consensual audience of one person and that person has to make an ongoing effort to get through the story. And it costs so little to produce. That’s the strength of books.”
[QUOTE=thirstygerbil;1026005]Yeah, this is definitely Chuck. I've heard him say this in a few audio interviews when he talks about the role of books as an entertainment medium, and that books, above movies, video games, and TV, is a form that the audience MUST willingly embrace. In that way authors of books are able to get by with a lot more.
Don't know the specific interview, though. Try googling "audio Chuck Palahniuk interviews." It's bound to be there somewhere.
EDIT: Yea, I broke 100 posts. Congratulate me dammit.[/QUOTE]
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I guess it's probably been said by a lot of people, as well as Chuck. Paul Auster said something very similar, and I think Borges wrote about it in one of his intros to something or other (he seemed to write a lot about the power of the reader in making a book what it is as a whole, or something, i dunno, i'm tired.).
The Auster quote was: "You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one." (and mildly related: "And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.")
Yeah, this is definitely Chuck. I've heard him say this in a few audio interviews when he talks about the role of books as an entertainment medium, and that books, above movies, video games, and TV, is a form that the audience MUST willingly embrace. In that way authors of books are able to get by with a lot more.
Don't know the specific interview, though. Try googling "audio Chuck Palahniuk interviews." It's bound to be there somewhere.
EDIT: Yea, I broke 100 posts. Congratulate me dammit.
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