#era

I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society". "If society were really decent, he would have been ↗

— George R. Gissing

#victorian-era #women-s-issues #imagination

You get to help people in ways that I can't even imagine. Hell, *you get to help people.* ↗

— Keith R.A. DeCandido

#nate #imagination

My imagination lives and breathes between the pages" – Jaime Guerard, author of The Awaken Series ↗

— Jaime Guerard

#jaime-guerard #quotes #imagination

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy! ↗

— Frans de Waal

#cooperation #empathy #evolution #frans-de-waal #male-dominance

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a book, and you are able to stroll along both the real and imagined road. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#literature #place #topography #imagination

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#inspirational #inspirational

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#literature #life

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#accepting #gossip #liberation #life

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? ↗

— Donna Tartt

#literature #life

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves ↗

— Arthur Miller

#life #literature #plays #truth #wisdom