FROM THIS IS THINKING | ALAN DAVIES

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        Book centered writing.

        In the most blatant triadization of things we
        have the writer and the book and the reader.

        Writer centered writing is practiced by most
        writers.

        Writer centered writing is practiced by most (if
        not all) writers. And it is the most appreciated
        by critics who despite their protestations to the
        contrary will always know more about a writing
        person (another "themself") than they will ever
        know about writing.

        Reader centered writing is most desired by
        writers. Who among them does not want
        primarily to be read? And among them who
        does not remember best their own first and
        early pleasures at that (the reading) end of the
        sport?

        Every good book is a sentient book.

        Every book is sentient.

        What is its experience of being written?

        Of being read?

        What does it want? And what does it get?

        (The book is a mind of its own.)