By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.
William TrevorRead
My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the role of a storyteller in conveying the human experience without a specific agenda.
William Trevor highlights the essence of storytelling, suggesting that while his fiction may shed light on aspects of humanity, his primary goal is simply to tell a compelling story. This reflects the idea that great storytelling can naturally uncover truths about the human condition without the need for overt moralizing or intention.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the importance of storytelling in literature classes.
By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you canβt write unless you read.
People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.
Fashion, which often seems to be on a path to be bigger, more Instagram-ready, can also achieve its best through sincerity.
Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.
I don't want to repeat myself. I'm not going to play a guy like Allen in Happiness again any time soon because I did that and I don't want to tarnish or dilute that film by doing it again, maybe less well.
The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies or problems...I have embarked on this geometric problem again and again over the years, trying to throw light on different aspects each time. I cannot imagine what my life would be like if this problem had never occurred to me; one might say that I am head over heels in love with it, and I still don't know why.
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.
We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
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