What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes biography deep fact
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own. Varley O'Connor artclaimdream share on social
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people. Varley O'Connor factfamousfiction Change image and share on social
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives. Varley O'Connor bringconnectdepth Change image and share on social
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin arrangementcosmosdeep Change image and share on social
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. Jonathan Frakes americanbaseballbiography share on social
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. Thomas A. Edison denyexistfact share on social