“The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.” WritingFictionOrdinaryAccidentsConfusionDistractionOrdinary Life Book:New and selected essays Source: New and selected essays
“Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.” WritingTryingAgeTodayMankindOrdinaryTablesBreakfastSolar System Author:Darcy O'Brien
“I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.” WritingLongEnoughSeeingOrdinaryBlameExtraordinaryMarvelousJournalScratchesRemarksCommonplace Book:Conversations with Saul Bellow Source: Conversations with Saul Bellow