Famous quotes containing the words fiction and/or community:
“To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. Its forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where theres a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)
“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?Nono, tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.”
—Washington Irving (17831859)
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