“Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.” LiteratureMemoriesCareersTruth IsDemandEdgesNightmareNervesLiving On Author:Herbert Gold
“The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.” FirstsUsedLyingSimpleAirChangedTruth IsThousandEdgesComplicatedFabricWrapsSimple TruthsLies TruthQuillsMicah Book:Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.” WorldWayMindBelieveHumansHas BeensRealHardCertainTruth IsCreaturesEdgesSymbolsHuman MindCategoriesReal WorldArtificialDefiningOur Words Author:Gene Wolfe