Posts Tagged ‘Vladimir Nabokov’
Documenting Discovery: Lisa Olstein on the Art of Observation
“We all love to receive something either really beautiful or really intelligent, but what’s most exciting or engaging is when a work of art stimulates in you a new kind of thinking, or a new set of questions, or a new set of ideas that are happening in your own brain but that were instigated by the art.”
Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor
Posted: November 25, 2008
Tags: John von Neumann, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, Saul Bellow, imagination
“It’s about fifty percent based on certain things I know from real life, and about fifty percent made up out of nothing, just out of daydreaming. I think that’s the way it should be. This is not memoir, this is not autobiography, this is not confession. It’s fibbing. It’s making things up.”
Exploring Transition: Aryn Kyle
“I think a lot of my writing begins with something I lived or something I saw, but then develops from the question, ‘What would it have been like to live through that experience if I was this person, or that person, or if this had happened rather than that?’”
