I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.
If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over. - Fred D'Aguiar
If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.
- Fred D'Aguiar
People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it. - Fred D'Aguiar
People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.
Much of the visualizing is imaginative. - Fred D'Aguiar
Much of the visualizing is imaginative.
I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and the… - Fred D'Aguiar
I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and the…
Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions. - Fred D'Aguiar
Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.
To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that,… - Fred D'Aguiar
To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that,…
I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you'… - Fred D'Aguiar
I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you'…
Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat. - Fred D'Aguiar
Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.
There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you… - Fred D'Aguiar
There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you…
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