Respect For Craft
Amongst his contemporaries, LoBrutto is known for a strong sense of craft, and a love for the process of bringing a book to life. He has gone on record in agreeing with Isaac Asimov that "a book turns on when you open it, and automatically turns off when you close it. When I was a child, first learning to read, I believed that books were living things, that they slept when closed, awakened when open."
In writers' conferences and his own essays, LoBrutto also stated that "books are our gospels, and through them our lives are changed, informed, diverted, charged. At the best, a book selects from the growling, grumbling collective wisdom that the human race has gathered through much difficulty, with great and tearful strife."
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