“A story or novel is a kind of map because, like a map, it is not a world, but it evokes one (or at least one, for each reader.”
― Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
― Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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“To ask for a map is to say, “Tell me a story.”
― Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
― Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.”
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― The Story Girl
― The Story Girl
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