Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels of joy… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“The power of the preacher's command over the beast intrigues them more than the threat of imminent violence against one of their own, in… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
