The Writing of Stories, in Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling, Philip Pullman
But you do make choices. You can't help it. That's the way narrative works. You privilege this over that by the mere fact of focusing on it.
The Writing of Stories, in Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling, Philip Pullman I am surely not the only writer who has the distinct sense that every sentence I write is surrounded by the ghosts of the sentences I could have written at that point, but chose not to.
The Writing of Stories, in Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling, Philip Pullman But your nature, the nature of your particular talent, is rarely as balanced as your intentions...
The Writing of Stories in Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling, Philip Pullman If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.
The Image-World, Susan Sontag Photography, which has so many narcissistic uses, is also a powerful instrument for depersonalizing our relation to the world; and the two uses are complementary. Like a pair of binoculars with no right or wrong end, the camera makes exotic things near, intimate; and familiar things small, abstract, strange, much farther away. It offers, in one easy, habit-forming activity, both participation and alienation in our own lives and those of others – allowing us to participate, while confirming alienation.
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