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Friday, March 19, 2010

"I don't buy it."

From the preface of "What the Dog Saw":

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, "I don't buy it." Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. ... It succeeds or fail on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head -- even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

没错,不同意的话下次不要看同一作者的书就好了嘛,最多‘切’一声,有什么好怒的呢。

Little Meatball said...

我觉得有些人容易怒是因为他们无法忍受挑战他们的既定概念的新理论和新思路,而且新说法又这么难以辩驳,就勃然大怒了。

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