The Art Of Fiction Is Freedom Of

Death Persecutes Before It Executes.

The Imagination Is A Species Of Knowledge, Knowledge That Can Take The Form Of Discovery.

One Reason Writers Write Is Out Of Revenge.

Novels Are Routinely Denigrated When Characters Are Not Found To Be Likable. Is Raskolnikov Likable? Is King Lear? The Plethora Of Such Naive Readers Testifies To A Failure Of Imagination - The Capacity To See Into Unfamiliar Lives, Motives, Feelings - And This Failure Must, At Least In Part, Be The Failure Of The Teaching Of Literature In The Schools.

Traveling Is Seeing; It Is The Implicit That We Travel By.