“But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the actual facts of an event. Lying as a way to move closer to the truth, or to illuminate ow something actually feels in a way the mere facts cannot.” WayFeelsFactsMovingLyingHonestEventsPerspectiveMereBrandsNovelists Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The ongoing paradox is that sometimes it's harder to get to the emotional truth of something when you only have the facts at your disposal.” BelieveDifferentSometimesWholeFactsWrittenHavensEmotionalHarderMusclesParadoxNonfictionOngoingLeading Me Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one they were doomed. You wish they understood that there is joy in this fact, greater joy and love in just this one last moment than they experienced in the entirety of their lives. Because even in this last moment there is still Everything, whole galaxies and eons, the sum total of every experience across time, shrunk to the head of a pin, theirs for the asking, right here, right now. And so anything, anything, anything is possible.” StillsTwoWholeMomentsFactsLastsJoyWishGreaterRight NowUnderstoodAnd LoveAskingCellsDoomedGalaxyPinsAnything Is PossibleEntirety Author:Ron Currie Jr.
