“As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.” I CanFeelingsTogetherPastUsedMemoriesFictionFiveRemainsBoundsVainNot SureSquaresCharmingVagueScrapAll That Remains Book:Nausea Source: Nausea
“The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.” FactsTermFictionHistoricalBoundsFact And Fiction Author:Antony Beevor
“... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.” FictionBoundsAutobiography Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.” MeanFactsStoriesLawTermFictionNovelAdvantageClaimsBoundsNarrativeAnalysisExplanationPoetry IsShort StoryVisionariesKinship Book:Stories Source: Stories
“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