Encounters Quote by Frank Kermode Download Open image “It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.” — Frank Kermode ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Encounters Fiction Innovation
It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions. — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions. — Emma Mackey Copy Share Image
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if one wanted… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“I suppose it would be better if one were aggressive, contentious and so on. But there's rarely any occasion to be savage.” — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“When tragedy established itself in England it did so in terms of plots and spectacle that had much more to do with medieval apocalypse… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The novel, then, provides a reduction of the world different from that of the treatise. It has to lie. Words, thoughts, patterns of word… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The books which seal off the long perspectives, which sever us from our losses, which represent the world of potency as a world of… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The discords of our experience--delight in change, fear of change; the death of the individual and the survival of the species, the pains and… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“It might be useful here to say a word about Beckett, as a link between the two stages, and as illustrating the shift towards… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“The great majority of interpretations of Apocalypse assume that the End is pretty near. Consequently the historical allegory is always having to be revised;… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“You sometimes hear people say, with a certain pride in their clerical resistance to the myth, that the nineteenth century really ended not in… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us! — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it… — Soko Morinaga Copy Share Image
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it. — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
