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Famous Writers on the Power & Beauty of Reading (JK Rowling, George RR Martin, Stephen King, more)
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@bestofhumans4715 5 жыл бұрын
00:00 George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice & Fire) 00:43 Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) 01:13 Carl Sagan (Cosmos) 02:01 David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) 04:04 JK Rowling (Harry Potter) 04:31 Stephen King 06:50 Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22; journalist) 08:08 James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) 09:12 JK Rowling again 09:41 Sir Ken Robinson (Creative Schools; lecturer) 10:34 George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) 12:18 A questionable overuse of JK Rowling 13:02 Christopher Hitchens again 14:13 An unquestionable overuse of JK Rowling 14:51 Maurice Sendak again (feat. Stephen Colbert)
@bestofhumans4715 5 жыл бұрын
@@sameenhassan4121 Charlie Rose
@shanenolan85 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks a million!
@tlightning8383 3 жыл бұрын
Will you please do a short documentary on Ken Robinson? He was an incredible, inspiring, great man who passed away recently. He was a hero of mine, and to many others.
@thelaurels13 4 жыл бұрын
James Ellroy was pissed! 😂😂 JK Rowling is absolutely right, if you waited for motivation and inspiration to write you’d never write anything, because put simply motivation never comes, just do it!
@ishita4215 4 жыл бұрын
This video is terribly underrated. It should have way more views.
@sabrinac8453 3 жыл бұрын
Well people don't even want to know why reading is important
@thirdwave--hardunderground9085 5 жыл бұрын
Wow....David Foster's opinion was true and very inspiring at the same time. I think my next book will be Infinite Jest ^^
@RahulSingh-rk5dz 5 жыл бұрын
Granny you really rubbed James in a wrong way
@Wiizardii 9 ай бұрын
Man, David Foster Wallace was damn ahead of his time - I had this video in the background and at first I thought it was some random writer from 2018 talking, describing our current social media cuture -- then I looked at the computer and saw it was David Foster Wallace and that clip was from an interview in like 2003. He perfectly described our current day and age. Short-term gratification, zero focus, IG/TikTok feeding your bias and spread of mis-information.
@watts3995 5 жыл бұрын
Just wish Tolkien could finish writing the world he created
@bughead5615 5 жыл бұрын
What is a world that's finished?
@bughead5615 5 жыл бұрын
What's a world that's finished?
@shaneogallagher831 2 ай бұрын
James Ellroy with the unhinged rage flowing out of him 😂😂😂
@klarastern5597 5 жыл бұрын
thank you for this! 😘
@sharjeelahmed341 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video, brilliant ending 😉
@gian87lep3 2 жыл бұрын
Martin at the beginning is not Martin but Umberto Eco
@benjaminburt4285 5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@crumblecrunchable 5 жыл бұрын
I don't really like to read. I don't really even want to like to read. As someone who is passionate about the visual arts, I feel that film is just more useful to me. However, this video is very convincing and there are some good points being presented.
@barkYdarkATFB 5 жыл бұрын
Reading opens your imagination in ways a video never can.
@barkYdarkATFB 5 жыл бұрын
...and then there's the beauty of the words! A particular word, a witty or magical phrase that you can immediately dwell on. That is surely missed when focused on the visual.
@barkYdarkATFB 5 жыл бұрын
@greenguy4u Nah. It’s more like preferring to look at pictures of stars than look through a telescope and see details on each planet, or watching a sunset on tv than sitting outside for the real thing.
@crumblecrunchable 5 жыл бұрын
@@barkYdarkATFB It's like watching a sunset on TV or me describing a sunset I saw to you.
@barkYdarkATFB 5 жыл бұрын
@Joe Draws Yes. It is in a way. The image you get on the tv is fixed. It is what it is. It’s imprinted in your mind a particular way. The description, however, activates your imagination. The description has adjectives and emotion, unless the describer sucks at it. The difference between, say, a movie or a book. They might convey the same overall story. A movie typically takes between one to three hours to fulfill the action. A book, if completed in one sitting, may take seven or more hours. This is because there is nuance, thought processes, vivid descriptions of surroundings or of people. It may take you back in time for a moment to create an understanding for the mindset of a character. It can be narrated from the point of view of a person, literally inside their head. You understand their fears or biases in just a moment of time. I like movies. But making a movie based on a book is basically cutting out over half of the original story. I actually read about five books a month, so I’m a little biased in my preferences. It’s getting involved with a character or a plot. It’s wondering what will happen next before you can get back to it. It’s thinking about ideas that a writer is presenting. This is not an argument as to who is better, a watcher or a reader. They do involve different parts of the brain, for sure. But I feel like what is read will stay with you longer, have more meaning to you in the end.
@barkYdarkATFB 5 жыл бұрын
I prefer *listening to Hitchens, rather than reading him, sometimes. His occasional passion is one thing, but often its what's buried in the mumbling that is the treasure.
@barkYdarkATFB 5 жыл бұрын
Its hard seeing him sick. I'm bummed he's gone.
@bestofhumans4715 2 жыл бұрын
@@barkYdarkATFB there is a beautiful irony in his speech. He was talking about Socrates, but to me, every single word spoken, I can apply to him. He rearranged my mental furniture. And I can come on here or open one of his books and meet with him again. It’s not the same, but it’s exactly what he was talking about.
@m.rosariomartinez9492 3 жыл бұрын
"Softening borders between people (...) In a world that is kinda dominated by (...) a fairly shallow and very pervasive mode of social media, in which you come to think of the other person as an invisible and anonymous other, who is sort of in opposition to you. Literature turns that around, says the person you think is your enemy, regarded with enough affection, with enough time and care and love will be seen to be very similar to you, even if they are quite different in the world, we emanate from the same root (...) a cultural tendency to minimize art or treat it as a kind of indulgence (...) Art is actually the way people think best about the world, we think most deeply about the world when we're engaged in a work of art (...) We're not helpless, we're not alone and through literature (...) we can actually hold each other up in a difficult time. Literature is a force for communication and compassion and at a time like this is when we need it the most." How lovely 🧡
@shanenolan85 5 жыл бұрын
Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), James Cameron (Terminator), Ernest Hemingway, and Theodore Roosevelt inspired me to become a avid reader 📚📖📚 #thankyou 🙏🏿
@sirgalahad1376 4 жыл бұрын
Lethal Weapon and Terminator are films not books. Theodore Roosevelt was our 26th President not an author. Please stop pretending to be an avid reader and go back to making hip hop videos on tik tok.
@shanenolan085 4 жыл бұрын
😂🤣😂🤣 dude you're a dumbass 😂🤣 I don't even like hip hop (I'm not black btw) and the original post went waaay over your head. Enjoy your day.
@sirgalahad1376 4 жыл бұрын
Shane Nolan Pretty sure that’s you in your profile pic struggling to read Green Eggs and Ham.
@shanenolan085 4 жыл бұрын
😂🤣😂 enjoy your day
@TheJollyJokerDancer 2 жыл бұрын
Martin: "there is this line I use in Game of Thrones"... proceeds to quote Umberto Eco.
@that_artsy_boy675 4 жыл бұрын
Please can anyone tell me what interview is 4:31 Stephen King? I can't find it anywhere
@Jets1713 4 жыл бұрын
charbel khalil nope
@Gaurav-kw8xb 3 жыл бұрын
It is Stephen king on Twilight and 50 shades of grey
@fatima_nadeem 4 жыл бұрын
JK Rowling🖤🖤🖤
@riripurpletini 5 жыл бұрын
what’s the diff between reading and watching a movie tho can’t i get same benefits
@bestofhumans4715 5 жыл бұрын
No. Not only does reading improve your vocabulary and understanding of language which helps you communicate better, but reading stretches your imagination. It’s called ‘theater of the mind.’ Movies are already imagined and visualized by someone else. Books give you the tools to do that on your own. Movies have their own benefits, but so do books, and they are different.
@LadyMacbeth56 4 жыл бұрын
I don't think so. When you are reading, you are removed from your reality into that of a character who's colors are being given life by your imagination. It's not your work, however, you can shape it in your mind the way you feel it is. I truly believe that reading is a much better stimulation for the brain. It gives you quiet time. You time. I feel it is much more relaxing. It makes you see things from a different perspective than that of a movie. Also, with reading, the adventure last longer. It takes you much futher.
@futurez12 4 жыл бұрын
A movie will always just be the cliff notes to the novel.
@edwardm1326 3 жыл бұрын
In a movie you are essentially passive. You just sit back and watch. With a book you’re creating the world as you read.
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