Finding a Voice
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
the editor as reader
"... all of us would be able to talk avidly and at length about books we care about. And that's why this matters. Editors can come across as authority figures with impeccable taste and the frightening power to acquire or not acquire. But we are all readers first, and readers whose interests and insights continue to evolve throughout our lives. ...
"Being a reader is to be engaged in a continuing process ... I am, as an editor, influenced by what I have read and am reading. Seems obvious, but it's easy to assume that our taste is fixed. It isn't, and I wouldn't want it to be."
-- Harold Underdown
"Being a reader is to be engaged in a continuing process ... I am, as an editor, influenced by what I have read and am reading. Seems obvious, but it's easy to assume that our taste is fixed. It isn't, and I wouldn't want it to be."
-- Harold Underdown
posted by Colleen McCubbin at 1:58 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Colleen! It's so weird that you did a master's on "finding a voice..." I started writing a book a little while ago with that as the theme... we should get together and talk sometime. The book's not really a priority, but the thought process and struggling through humanity's need (and mostly mine, honestly) for a voice. That's exciting! Talk to you soon, I hope.
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