Letters and Life Quotes

“Tell the truth, but understand that it is not necessarily what happened,” is one of the things she told him. “Every good story is a parable,” is another.”
― Bret Lott, Letters and Life: On Being a Writer, On Being a Christian

“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas popular fiction, I tell them, is meant primarily as a means of escape, one way or another, from this present life, a kind of book equivalent of comfort food, literary fiction confronts us with who we are and makes us look deeply at the human condition.”
― Bret Lott, Letters and Life: On Being a Writer, On Being a Christian