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…
Escape Is Not A Bad Thing To Be Scorned
Escape Is Not A Bad Thing To Be Scorned “I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and…
Trot Behind Your Character
Trot Behind Your Character “It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”–William Faulkner