Tuesday December 09, 2008 at 8:21
1 note“We have a writing crisis on ours hands. Everybody in the country is writing books but only a fraction of that number is interested in reading them; while the Chinese work, we workshop. There’s no bigger folly than writing instruction displacing “literature” in college English, though this seems to be what’s happening—not because you can’t teach writing, but because there’s no point in teaching writing when you haven’t reproduced the art of reading. The best you can hope to do is create an artificial market of people who will have to purchase the current round of books, whatever they may be, because they weren’t given the skills to read the books that came before. It’s like those Hollywood remakes that trade on the fact that modern viewers can’t watch black and white, or Technicolor, or even actors with bygone accents and uptight hairdos.”
— n+1, cited here
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