Chris’s Reviews > The Rhetoric of Fiction > Status Update

"One of our most common reading experiences is, in fact, the discovery on reflection that we have allowed ourselves to become a 'mock reader' whom we cannot respect, that the beliefs which we were temporarily manipulated into accepting cannot be defended in the light of day"

"The less one feels a thing, the more likely one is to express it as it really is." -Flaubert

"The action of my new work takes place at night. It's natural things should not be so clear at night, isn't it?" -James Joyce

"...we must never forget that though the author can to some extent choose his disguises, he can never choose to disappear."