The real work of a human being is to communicate the most meaningful experiences and the most decisive passions of his life as precisely as in a biography.
The real work of a human being is to communicate the most meaningful experiences and the most decisive passions of his life as precisely as in a biography.
“Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh. I don’t think there’s any consecutive moral philosophy in fiction beyond excellence. Acuteness of feeling and velocity have always seemed to me terribly important. People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.”
John Cheever