To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment,… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though… — 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
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