James Wood





James Wood

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Average rating: 3.98 · 6,977 ratings · 710 reviews · 64 distinct works · Similar authors
How Fiction Works
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 2,016 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions
The Broken Estate: Essays o...
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
The Irresponsible Self: On ...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
The Book Against God
3.11 of 5 stars 3.11 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
The Fun Stuff: And Other Es...
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
Stories from Greek Mythology
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
Problems in Modern Latin Am...
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
Die Kunst Des Erzählens
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
A Herança Perdida
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012
Treasures of 19th-And 20th-...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993
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“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.”
James Wood, How Fiction Works

“When I talk about free indirect style I am really talking about point of view, and when I talk about point of view I am really talking about the perception of detail, and when I talk about detail I'm really talking about character, and when I talk about character I am really talking about the real, which is at the bottom of my inquiries.”
James Wood, How Fiction Works

“Life, then will, always contain an inevitable surplus, a margin of the gratuitous, a realm in which there is always more than we need: more things, more impressions, more memories, more habits, more words, more happiness, more unhappiness.”
James Wood, How Fiction Works

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