“A child screams with joy and a child screams with pain, and the difference is in the timbre of that scream. Decibels… — Fred D'Aguiar Children 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… — Fred D'Aguiar Combat 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… — Fred D'Aguiar Answers 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… — Fred D'Aguiar Declaration 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 Emotional Copy Share Image
People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it. — Fred D'Aguiar People 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… — Fred D'Aguiar Daily life 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… — Fred D'Aguiar Argument Copy Share Image
People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life. — Fred D'Aguiar Cheesecake 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 Age 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,… — Fred D'Aguiar Air Copy Share Image
To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined… — Fred D'Aguiar Architecture Copy Share Image
If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over. — Fred D'Aguiar Education Copy Share Image
People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of… — Fred D'Aguiar Books Copy Share Image
“Any place where their thoughts are not allowed to stray is guarded by his voices steering them back to the permitted pastures.… — Fred D'Aguiar Kingdom of heaven Copy Share Image
My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side. — Fred D'Aguiar Betrayed Copy Share Image
If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to… — Fred D'Aguiar Agency Copy Share Image
I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that. — Fred D'Aguiar I can Copy Share Image
With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity. — Fred D'Aguiar Bed Copy Share Image
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 Character Copy Share Image
Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions. — Fred D'Aguiar Emotion 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 Betterment 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… — Fred D'Aguiar Constructive Copy Share Image
