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“I’m always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.”

“I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.”

“I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”

Classic quotes like these speckle this collection of O’Connor’s collected essays and lectures like green and gold on a peacock.

I don’t know enough of the history to know how much of his content is historically precise, but Barnes’s work is simple, elegant, and seems to get to the root of things regarding Shostakovich’s relationship to Stalin’s regime. The account of art clashing against power transcends the details.