"There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer."

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Fred D'Aguiar

#Fiction Quotes #Answers Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.”

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“Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.”
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
“Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.”
“Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.”
“It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.”
“The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.”
“I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.”

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