Art Quote by Ben Lerner

I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is…

— Ben Lerner

It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and they make…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

— Anish Kapoor

“Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly…

— Henry Eliot

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and…

— Rick Alverson

It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on…

— Cheryl Strayed

“People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that are already…

— Stewart Stafford

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and…

— Clarence Major

I've always been drawn to the hard story, the trauma, because I think art can turn it around.

— Mary Gauthier

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing…

— William P. Young

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first…

— Aleksandar Hemon