“The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from life, appears as a natural, almost unnoticed relief, like some of the challenging illnesses wiped out by drug and vaccines.” TodayNaturalChallengesFictionSeriousDramaDrugGuiltIllnessFollowingReliefVaccinesUnnoticedDisappearance Book:Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays Source: Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays
“In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.” ChristianFictionClearExampleOughtGoodnessFollowingAttractiveProposeEmploying Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging.... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality.” ThinkingGivingMomentsRealityLiteratureInterestingFictionPhotographyWingsFollowingObservationDescriptionThat MomentLet It GoStaging Author:Larry Sultan
“When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book's demands, the subject's requirements - I love books, I always have. They have always been one of the places where I have felt very happy in the world. When I was younger, I loved to read genre fiction - I loved the magic-carpet ride of story! Now I need other things - I need the beautiful particular and strange language and form which brings a writer's book to life in me and speaks to my intellect, and, dare I say it, to my soul.” WorldNeedsWritingI CanBookSoulStoriesBeautifulFormSpeakLanguageFeltFictionMagicSubjectsParticularStrangeDemandFollowingDareIntellectMy SoulGenreRequirementsVery HappyCarpet Author:Micheline Aharonian Marcom
“I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not.” KnowsWritingReadingMy OwnFictionAdviceHabitFollowingHonestlyGuiseReading Habits Author:Kevin Keck
“My friend asked me recently, "Do you find it weird that you are now the property of other people's imaginations?" I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of privacy, but then I realized it's nice that the character can be shared.” PeopleFirstsCharacterFeltImaginationFictionNiceFansMy FriendsPropertyPassionateFollowingI RealizedPrivacyInvasionArtworkInvasion Of Privacy Author:Alycia Debnam Carey