“For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.” WayNeedsFormLyingLiteratureSecretNovelGoneOur LivesAwarenessFlowImportanceDetermineSensitiveSatireSympathyTidesCleansingNew PlacesEbb And FlowRecoilSecret Places Book:Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“Despite the war, and bombings, and all the big things that happen to us, the stuff of our lives is small and always will be. During a war it is different, but even then, it is perfectly possible to write novels during a major war, which are about those thing which endure. It is what makes us human and the thing which is going to keep going.” WritingHumansDifferentWarBigsHappensLife IsStuffNovelOur LivesMajorsEndureDespiteKeep GoingBig ThingsBombing Author:Robert Dessaix
“I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art, experiencing things that resonate with what our lives are about. I think people really want to know... want to share, want to have the stimulus to think and care about the way they live their lives, the way they relate to other people, their aspirations, their hopes, et cetera.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantArtCareFilmNovelOur LivesShareRelateAspirationStimulusExperiencing Things Author:Mike Leigh
“Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.” WantWritingBookSometimesCharacterLife IsNovelOur LivesThemePrincipal Book:Diary, 1928-1957 Source: Diary, 1928-1957
“Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.” KnowsEndsSometimesCoursesNovelOur LivesPages Author:Junot Diaz