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“However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.”

Character Stories Novel Position Standing Furniture Tedious Duration

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.”

Source: Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings

“I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.”

Knows Feels Writing Book Ideas Enough Stories Care Imagination Class Position Appreciation Limitation I Care Defects My Imagination Lower Class

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.”

Should Stories Literature Position Objects Photography

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!”

Ifs Kind May Stories Happens Century Position Reader Scene Succeed Careful Ghost Ghost Stories

Book:Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

Source: Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

“Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.”

Facts Stories Position Universal Databases

Author:Seth Godin

“if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don't love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society.”

Ifs Thinking Art Important Stories Choices Culture Passion Position Expression Betray Things You Love Important Choices

Author:Lina Wertmuller