We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
E. L. DoctorowRead
In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
Interpretation
Fiction allows limitless exploration beyond physical boundaries.
This quote by E. L. Doctorow emphasizes the boundless nature of fiction, where the imagination can transcend geographical and physical limitations. In the realm of storytelling, authors and readers can explore any setting or idea, highlighting the power of creativity in literature that enables one to experience diverse cultures, times, and emotions.
In practice
A writer's workshop where participants are encouraged to explore any setting in their stories.
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music within the film, by separating the music from various elements of reality, like noises, dialogues... That's how you treat music properly, but it doesn't always happen this way. Music is often blamed, but it's not its fault.
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.
A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.
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