With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.
I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.
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