“Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.” ChildrenDoeBookRealHappensFamilyReal LifeBehaveStepmothers Book:The Tale of Genji Source: The Tale of Genji
“I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's own experience...has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart.” WritingHeartArtHappensMy OwnEmotionNovelTheoryMovedPassionateShut UpStoryteller Author:Murasaki Shikibu
