Quote for Today: George Saunders
Who am I? Everybody. As Whitman said: “I am large, I contain multitudes.” Individuals within that multitude are always flickering on and off within me, stepping forward, then receding. And …
Quote for Today: Eudora Welty
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life. This has …
Quote for Today: Virginia Woolf
Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own Image by Pexels from Pixabay …
Quote for Today: Arthur Conan Doyle
“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind …
Quote for Today: Philip Roth
I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I’m not a fantasist. I bounce up and …
Quote for Today: G.K. Chesterton
Can you not see… that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? …
Quote for Today: Umberto Eco
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By …