Wasn’t writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination – Ian McEwan, Atonement

Wasn’t writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination

–
Ian McEwan,

Atonement

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then all the combinations made they are

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then all the combinations made they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

–
Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina

The form of observation , which underlines all speech and language development, always expresses a peculiar spiritual character , a special

The form of observation , which underlines all speech and language development, always expresses a peculiar spiritual character , a special way of conceiving and apprehending. The difference between the several languages, therefore, is not a matter of different sounds and marks, but of different world conceptions.

–
Ernst Cassirer

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

–
Eleanor Roosevelt

.. he’d never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all

.. he’d never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they this weilded ‘power’ barbarically so the world would not find them out

–
Dennis Lehane,

The Given Day