Sunday, January 13, 2008

Quote of the Day: Vivan Gornick

"Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

One of my teachers used to say that a good piece had an inner story and an outer story, and both had to be right. Another semester, when he was teaching nonfiction, he said a good piece told a story of thought as well as a story of emotion.