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Another phrase that always gets under my skin is this one.... "Yeah, i read a book once."
Like that book is a pleasant memory of some one night stand twenty years ago- but not pleasant enough to repeat.
Our problem (writers) is that there are way too many distractions out there. And many of those distractions, while they cost more than our particular form of entertainment (the cost of buying or renting a video game/the cost of renting a DVD or BluRay/ and others....VS....the cost of buying and reading an e-book between 1.99 and 9.99)
All that other stuff is, lets face it, more FUN from their point of view.
Reading is very much a solitary, quiet endeavor.
And yet, we have to hang in there and continue fighting for our small share of eyeballs.
We've already lost far too much in the literary world
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