“I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.” WayWritingWantedChristianRoomsFictionImpressionPublishing Author:Sara Zarr
“Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.” PeopleFactsFictionPoliceImpressionSpillsFact And Fiction Author:Kobo Abe
“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.” WorldGivingBelieveDoeBookSpiritualRomanceFeltFictionKnownVirtueYouthDutyElementsImportanceEntertainmentNeighborListsImpressionTalesAdmirationCowardAdamTestimonyConjectureBoyishRobinson CrusoeDuty To God Book:Pleasures of Literature Source: Pleasures of Literature
“The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.” LiteratureFictionClearEffectsSittingImportanceUnityProductionsImpression Book:Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe Source: Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe