Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
questions. The world right now needs the most vivid, transformative universe of words that you and I can muster.
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
The limits of that language—shared assumptions of class, culture, education, ethics—both focus and shrink the scope of the fiction.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
At present, we seem to be suffering from a widespread failure of literary imagination. We have become worse at imagining the experiences of other people, less inclined to credit these experiences as being as valid and real as our own. Why is this? In part, I think, because of the methods by, and pace at which, we acquire our stories. After all, eve... See more
the global, intuitional language of fantasy to describe, as accurately as they can, the way “we” live “now.”