“Once something hooks my interest, I tend to look for reasons to keep enjoying it, and to downplay reasons to give it up….I am very much on the lookout for things that enrich my mental landscape, and in particular for ones that hook and stir my emotions in satisfying ways. The renewing of my feelings after the year’s shocks is a big priority to me – much higher than the exercise of punching holes in things just to demonstrate that I can. It’s not exactly kindness toward the work, but it’s something like that.”
–Bruce Baugh, in a post on approaches to fandom and criticism with which I identify so strongly that I’m hesitant to do anything other than say “please go and read it”