People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.
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.
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.
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…
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,…
At bottom, I'm a cheerful person. - Fred D'Aguiar
At bottom, I'm a cheerful person.
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.
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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