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The work that stirs the greatest passion is also the work that creates around it the greatest silence, the strongest imperative to stand back and admire and let others admire, without interfering.
Realism, if it is to reflect current reality, must include fantasy, computer simulation, rampant consumerism and corporate malfeasance, and futurism as a permanent state of mind, as well as all the old stuff: character, consequence, the thoughts and predicaments of regular people, the unmitigated exploitation of the weak by the powerful, the eternal possibility of the individual’s redemption.
“The writer can chose what he writes about,” Flannery O’Connor once said, “but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.”
book doesn’t have to do everything, I remember saying to myself back then, as a form of consolation; it just has to do something.
