On Fiction
"Why do we read fiction anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language—or at least I hope that's not our reason. I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not 'true' because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself."
~Orson Scott Card
posted by em²ile² @ 2:37 PM
4 Comments:
so this means you have started enders game?
sounds like we've been thinking about some of the same things lately.
I like your quote! :-D
I read Vladimir Nabokov to be impressed by his dazzling language.
Dazzling language means very little on its own. One scarcely appreciates a work of art by merely admiring the array of colors it contains.
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