"The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs."

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Source : John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.14, Vintage

John Gardner

#Fiction Quotes #Belief Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“We should never allow presentation to become a casualty of method.”
“He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating an image of them here on earth]. Nor is there at all any composite thing or creature endowed with sensation [made by God here on earth] like those in heaven. But the face is a symbol of the rational soul, the wings are the lofty ministers and energies of powers right and left, and the voice is delightful glory in endless contemplation.”
“I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.”
“I once asked Myung Mi Kim where gender is located in her work, and she said simply, "it's everywhere," resisting the notion that gender needs to be overly inscribed into the text with some kind of message. Hers is the kind of work that has most influenced how I make poetry - the idea that we don't need to enclose or nail down gender or race, for that matter.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.106, Courier Corporation
“I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.”
“But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does.”
“I realized what an artist is and what it is to be an artist.”

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