How to Read a Novelist Quotes

“True storytellers write not because they can but because they have to. There is something they want to say about the world that can only be said in a story.”
― John Freeman, How to Read a Novelist

“Plots are interesting, characters are fascinating, scenery can be totally enveloping,” Morrison says, “but the real art is the deep structure, the way that information is revealed and withheld so that the reader gets to find out things appropriately, or in a time frame that makes it an intimate experience.”
― John Freeman, How to Read a Novelist