“Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.” AbilityFictionNovelReaderMediumsNarrativeI've LearnedLengthLacking Author:Ron Rash
“The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.” MayReasonRealityTruthRunningLyingOrderReadingAbilityFictionHonestyTruth IsAngerStrangerRationalThreadIrrationalBelievableStranger Than Fiction Book:Clearing the ground Source: Clearing the ground
“I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.” ThinkingKindLiteratureAbilityFictionBoundsContemporaryPostsBlogsSitcomIntellectualismContemporary Fiction Author:Ben Lerner
“Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.” BeautifulAbilityFictionQualityPhotographyConsequenceCompellingSevereAmbiguityBlurMisused Author:Taryn Simon
“I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people's experiences.” PeopleThinkingHelpingIndividualAbilityFictionResponsibilitySpecialDemand Author:Ben H. Winters