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.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.
The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.
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