“I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.” IfsHas BeensArtAbleFictionNarrativeFilmmakerVisualsCartoonistVisual Art Author:Jonathan Lethem
“The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.” LittlesHas BeensHistoryMankindDesignNarrativeDisappointed Book:The works of Samuel Johnson Source: The works of Samuel Johnson
“The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.” WritingMayHas BeensFactsStoriesProcessReaderFitNarrative Book:Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989 Source: Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989
“What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.” Has BeensIdeasCharacterMightMovingIndividualFiguresMovementIntellectualClimateClubsNarrativeSubtleInterpretationEntertainingMinorsSensibilityPortraitsMetaphysicalMight Have BeenColorfulIlluminatingMilieuAstute Author:George Scialabba