Nicola Chiaromonte famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.
-- Nicola Chiaromonte

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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.

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