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“Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“...she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“I do not like postmodernism, postapocalyptic settings, postmortem narrators, or magic realism. I rarely respond to supposedly clever formal devices, multiple fonts, pictures where they shouldn't be—basically, gimmicks of any kind. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful—nonfiction only, please. I do not like genre mash-ups à la the literary detective novel or the literary fantasy. Literary should be literary, and genre should be genre, and crossbreeding rarely results in anything satisfying. I do not like children's books, especially ones with orphans, and I prefer not to clutter my shelves with young adult. I do not like anything over four hundred pages or under one hundred fifty pages. I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes without saying—vampires.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Is a twist less satisfying if you know it’s coming? Is a twist that you can’t predict symptomatic of bad construction? These are things to consider when writing.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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