Good teaching is one-fourth
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Gail Godwin
Novelists
I don’t know who
I don’t know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it’s true. We aren’t satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The truth is that
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In journalism just one
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe … Read more
For you was I
For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It may happen in
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century. Evelyn Waugh
The novelist works neither
The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what’s told alive. Eudora Welty
The excursion is the
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora Welty
Was our life nothing
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? Ernesto Sabato
They wrote in the
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway