Editors would tell her that this reduced the tension but Spark appreciated that the interest of the reader, in fact, increases, as a shadow falls across the character.
"He's sometimes pegged as a nonsense writer," argues Leonard Marcus, "but most of the time he used nonsense as a device for holding the interest of the reader while he said something that was important to him".
You need to get to the point quickly, because if you haven't grabbed the interest of the reader within the first paragraph, your release will go straight in the bin.
"If you are taking a piece of iconic journalism and reissuing it, it is probably in the interest of the reader of today to place it into a context that makes sense," said Peter Osnos, the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books, which handles numerous works by journalists.
And the chief interest of the reader centres in watching the growth, not of that hatred of slavery which was inborn in Abraham Lincoln and always consistently manifested in his actions, but of his perception of the deadly nature of the feud between slavery and the Union, and of the rightfulness and necessity of crushing the one to preserve the other.
This chapter is written as several independent sections that can be read in any order, according to the interest of the reader.
Therefore we, in the best interest of the readers of course, decided not to ruin the good Christmas cheer for everyone by letting this influence our interpretation of the study.
"I like to create my own forms, and I like it when content reflects form, I am trying to give an extra layer of interest for the reader".
