The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: writing-craft literary-theory
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
Joshua ReynoldsTags: style literary-theory
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
Charles SimicTags: imagination literature literary-theory
To the jaded eye, all vampires seem alike, but they are wonderful in their versatility. Some come to life in moonlight, others are killed by the sun, some pierce with their eyes, others with fangs, some are reactionary, others are rebels, but all are disturbingly close to the mortals they prey on. I can think of no other monsters who are so receptive. Vampires are neither inhuman nor nonhuman nor all-too-human, they are simply more alive than they should be.
Nina AuerbachTags: vampire literary-theory contemporary-fiction
The genuine artist, Harris is saying, finds reality in a point of identity between subject and object, a point at which the created world and the world that is really there become the same thing. [p.211]
Northrop FryeTags: literary-criticism poetics literary-theory
It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to follow a sequence of actual events or not. As far as its verbal shape is concerned, it will be equally mythical in either case. But we notice that any emphasis on shape or structure or pattern or form always throws a verbal narrative in the direction we call mythical rather than historical.(p.21)
Northrop FryeTags: literary-criticism literary-theory narrative-theory world-culture
The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics.
C.S. LewisTags: criticism literary-theory
A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.
C.S. LewisTags: reading education criticism literary-theory
Imagination and the pure delight in stories drive out fear.
W.P. KerTags: inspirational literary-theory
The literary text seems like "a fortified medieval town –foreigners and outsiders are repelled, or allowed in only after rigorous checks, but within all is bustling life; exchange, mutual interdependence and influence are the rule.
Jeremy HawthornTags: literature criticism literary-theory literary-text medieval-town
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