Elena Ferrante Quotes
Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, it’s not a police report or a sentence handed down by a court. It’s not even the plausibility of a well-constructed narrative. Literary truth is entirely a matter of wording and is directly proportional to the energy that one is able to impress on the sentence. And when it works, there is no stereotype or cliché of popular literature that resists it. It reanimates, revives, subjects everything to its needs.
Elena Ferrante
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Umberto Eco
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Edgar Winter
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Dan Savage
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L. Ron Hubbard
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Tad Williams
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Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
Claude Bernard
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John Roy Anderson
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Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.
Eugene Ionesco
I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.
Garry Winogrand
Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, it’s not a police report or a sentence handed down by a court. It’s not even the plausibility of a well-constructed narrative. Literary truth is entirely a matter of wording and is directly proportional to the energy that one is able to impress on the sentence. And when it works, there is no stereotype or cliché of popular literature that resists it. It reanimates, revives, subjects everything to its needs.
Elena Ferrante
