"If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry favor, or live up to the expectations of some sort of genre or structure."

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Source : "An Interview with David Bezmozgis" by Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

David Bezmozgis

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.”
“You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.”
“We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.”
“You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.”
“I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.”
“Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.”
“While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to utilize your odd moments...the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.”
“In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.”

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