reader psychology
S23 Bonus – Evoking the Right Emotions in the Reader
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours. – The History Boys
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S32E8 – The Debate About Trigger Warnings
I wondered, reading about the college discussions, whether, one day, people would put a trigger warning on my fiction. I wondered whether or not they would be justified in doing it. And then I decided to do it first. – Neil Gaiman
The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to. – John Cleese
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S32E7 – The Reader and the Fourth Wall
Hey! Yeah, you! I’m down here, busting my ***, while you sit on yours watching me jump around? How is that fair? –
Deadpool
