“I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.” IfsThinkingTryingKindHardSufferingSidesViewsLessonsFairsUniversityBobMarleyHard Lessons Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.” ThinkingI CanPolicyLaughter Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.” ThinkingEndsWalksFictionEmotionalIntuitiveProcedures Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.” IfsThinkingFirstsReaderLessonsNervousGuaranteesNervous System Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.” ThinkingWantPersonsCharacterMightSubjectsLessonsGapsSneakIdentifyingEmpatheticSneak In Author:Fred D'Aguiar
