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Joanna Scott Quotes

American - Author | 1960 - 1

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Reality Hide Person Way Seen May

As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.

Children Fun Stop Know Flexible

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

Simplicity Writing Hands Become Just

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

Me Writing Looking Book Long Write

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

Reality Entertainment Fiction May

There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

Change Art Past Limits Present Grow

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

Work Page Same Pleasure Fiction

With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

Morning Style Coffee Long Page Risk

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

Better Literature Celebration Imagine

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.

Year Early Working Assistant Agency

The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because their work didn't fit neatly into potted categories but also because they avoided the self-promotional efforts of their peers.

Work Time Past Peers Because Only

Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets.

Life Secrets Play Try Thanks Web

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