Which Novel Is The Most Dickensian?
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In case I forget; it does exist.
“ Enjoying a good work of literature entails getting lost. Vast and foreign is the journey, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. If the book is good, then the intelligence that guides us through the story will appear many degrees superior to our own. ”
Bryan Basamanowicz, “From the Library of Your Soul-Mate: The Unique Social Bond of Literature.” (via millionsmillions)
“ After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. ”
Ernest Hemingway (via talkirk)
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“ What artists and scientists have in common is the ability to live in an open-ended state of interpretation and reinterpretation of the products of our work. The work of artists and scientists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth in its very nature is contextual and changeable, dependent on point of view, and that today’s truths become tomorrow’s disproven hypotheses or forgotten objets d’art. ”
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain On Music (via oliviajohnstonphoto)
“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”
― Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction
Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, author of Splendid Nightmares, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen died at 83. RIP Maurice.
