Life Attempts To Resemble Story
Life Attempts To Resemble Story “A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”–Isaac Babel
Legendary Truth, Historical Truth
Legendary Truth, Historical Truth “History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.”–Victor Hugo
Primary Object Tells Stories
Primary Object Tells Stories “I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.”–Wilkie Collins
Fiction Worth Reading For Entertainment
Fiction Worth Reading For Entertainment “No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.”–Edgar Rice Burroughs
Bonkers When We Read A Novel
Bonkers When We Read A Novel “While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.”–Ursula K. Le Guin
Infinitely Stranger Is Life Than Fiction
Infinitely Stranger Is Life Than Fiction “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through…