Wendell Berry https://t.co/2VJSaU1Mby
Is it plainspoken?
Lee Hartley Carter • Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter
“If a writer presents only one side of a problem, one meaning in exclusion to all the others, then that writer is guilty of oversimplification, one-dimensionality, a lack of depth, and an act of violence to the phenomenon itself. He has denied its richness, scaled down the possibilities of being, frozen the process of meaning at a single fixed poin
... See moreCharles Johnson • The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
Wendell Berry • The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Because that is what words are: the crystallization in language of thousands of years of experience across numerous cultures and civilizations, each word being the almost tangible flesh in
Charles Johnson • The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
sententiously.
James Joyce • Dubliners (Illustrated Edition)
But the most famous familiar one is the story where things fall apart, and how this culturally stable setting with your coherence and just the attempt of the protagonist trying to live true to those moral demands on his person creates trouble, which tells me, and I think, to any other reader, that the world is imbued with irony and paradox and comp... See more
For the Wild • Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300 — FOR THE WILD
The limits of that language—shared assumptions of class, culture, education, ethics—both focus and shrink the scope of the fiction.