“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.” IfsWantShouldWritingYearsLongBookRealEndsWantedDiesNovelImpossibleGoes OnTraditionTragedyWoundsReal LifeScarConventionalHappy EndingsOld Wounds Author:Willa Cather
“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.” WritingStoriesFoundSidesImpossibleDeeperImpression Author:Leo Tolstoy
“All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.” WritingAgeYoungLyingLanguageCasesForeverImpossibleYouthTyrannyObedienceIntroducingDespotismImplicit Book:The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays Source: The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays
“The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.” WritingSelfBigsDealsDoubtImpossibleEditingBig DealSelf-doubt Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles, and pops with humor as Bonnie Marson makes Schubert a sexy, happening kind of guy who gives new meaning to our dreaming the impossible.” GivingWritingKindDreamGuyLinesSleepImpossibleMysteryHappeningsMusicalGlassesSexyPopsOpeningSnapsGreat MusicWhimsicalThrough The Looking GlassSchubert Author:Jonis Agee