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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.
- Nov 07, 2020
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.
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- Nov 07, 2020