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“Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.”

Facts Law Fiction Grace Property

Author:Max Stirner

“A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.”

Thinking Way Writing Said Two Book Able Order Fiction Grace Mines Creatures Chaos Patterns Novelists Guts Fragile Thread Spiders Envied Spun History Books Semblance

Author:Katherine Paterson

“But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.”

Source: Essays and Lectures

“I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.”

Writing Action Reading Found My Own Fiction Grace Subjects Devil Territory

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."”

Knows Should Writing Stories Fiction Grace Opposites Should I Outlines Workshops

Author:Andre Dubus