Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best subject matter for fiction. They do not dramatize well. They are, rather, a by-product, something the reader himself is led to formulate after watching the story unfold. The ideas, the generalizations, ought to be implicit in the selection and arrangement of the people and places and actions. They ought to haunt a piece of fiction as a ghost flits past an attic window after dark.
Wallace StegnerTags: writing ideas creative-process generalizations subject-matter
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
Haruki MurakamiTags: individuals singularity generalizations
As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: "I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.
Milton RokeachTags: irony psychoanalysis generalizations schizophrenics days-and-nights-at-ypsilanti
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
Ezra PoundTags: value audience generalizations
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
Agatha ChristieTags: humour hypocrisy irony thoughts generalizations
There are always exceptions to every generalization.
[A Christian Epilogue]
Tags: generalizations exceptions r-alan-woods
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.
Criss JamiTags: logic observation value generalizations extremes
General theories are everywhere condemned; the doctrine of the Rights of Man is dismissed with the doctrine of the Fall of Man. Atheism itself is too theological for us to-day. Revolution itself is too much of a system; liberty itself is too much of a restraint. We will have no generalizations. Mr. Bernard Shaw has put the view in a perfect epigram: 'The golden rule is that there is no golden rule.' We are more and more to discuss details in art, politics, literature. A man's opinion on tramcars matters; his opinion on Botticelli matters; his opinion on all things does not matter. He may turn over and explore a million objects, but he must not find that strange object, the universe; for if he does he will have a religion, and be lost. Everything matters--except everything.
G.K. ChestertonTags: modernism generalizations details postmodernity
Chesterton had an incorrigible and persistent tendency to throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater.
R. Alan WoodsTags: generalizations g-k-chesterton r-alan-woods
Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.
TrevanianTags: politics general generalizations
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