Peter Mendelsund

“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they…

— Peter Mendelsund

“Audition requires different neurological processes than vision, or smell. And I would suggest that we hear more than we see while we…

— Peter Mendelsund

“The outline. Not the detail. It was blurred.”

— Peter Mendelsund

“Writers reduce what they write, and readers reduce what they read. The brain itself is made to reduce, replace, emblemize... Verisimilitude is…

— Peter Mendelsund

“When we see plays performed on the stage, we work with a different set of standards. Hamlet is ours to picture as…

— Peter Mendelsund

“The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes.”

— Peter Mendelsund

“If books were roads, some would be made for driving quickly - details are scant, and what details there are appear drab…

— Peter Mendelsund

“Simulacrum worlds such as these require that their constituent parts, their contents, seems endless. The authors leads us down a narrative path,…

— Peter Mendelsund

“If we don't have pictures in our minds when we read, then it is the interaction of ideas - the intermingling of…

— Peter Mendelsund

“One should watch a film adaptation of a favorite book only after considering , very carefully, the fact that the casting of…

— Peter Mendelsund