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“If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.”

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Book:A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.”

Stories Fantasy Novel Childhood Observation Usual Bleak

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.”

Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters