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Below: Pirkle Jones, Log and Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, from Portfolio Two…, 1952; ca. 1968
(Source: thecitybythebay)
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."
— Ernest Hemingway (via grammarandwriting)
“The novelist pursues questions, and pursues them thoroughly. Not only when does it rain and when doesn’t it rain, but can we tolerate rain? What can we be made to tolerate? What should we not allow ourselves to be made to tolerate? And so on. So that finally, what’s moral in fiction is chiefly its way of looking. The premise of moral art is that life is better than death; art hunts for avenues to life. The book succeeds if we’re powerfully persuaded that the focal characters, in their fight for life, have won honestly or, if they lose, are tragic in their loss, not just tiresome or pitiful.”
“Short stories and plays go together in my mind. You take a point in time and develop it from there; there is no room for development backwards. In a novel I also take a point in time, but feel every room for development backwards. All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery—a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn’t. And the novelist, in particular, is trying to convince the reader that he is seeing society as a whole.”
"Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
— Colette (via taylorbooks)
(Source: zmcase)
