“Television and newspapers show people's lives at a certain point. But novels tell you what happened after the riot, what happened when everybody went home.”
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
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Glen Cook book Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 10, “An Abode of Ravens: Recovery” (p. 397)
“Everybody seemed to be in show business; what the hell had happened to the audience?”
T. A. Waters (1938–1998) American magician
Source: The Probability Pad (1970), Chapter 3 (p. 27)
“I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) Japanese-born British author
Dunn, Adam. " In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when http://web.archive.org/web/20010625162920/http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/" cnn.com Book News. 27 Oct. 2000 (archived from the original http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/10/27/kazuo.ishiguro/ on 2001-06-25). <br class="br">Interviews <br class="br">Context: More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality
[Andy Rooney, w:Andy Rooney, 6, Credits, Years of Minutes, 2003, PublicAffairs, 978-1586482114]
Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer
"Forgiveness" (7 July 2007)
Context: Now do we have to forgive and forget? No! In fact sometimes it's important to remember, so that you can prevent something like that from happening again, or know that it's not ok with you, even with that person or anyone else.
But forgiving — why not? Do it so that you can be free. And I guarantee you, you will be free of this thing. And even if you don't tell this person you've forgiven them, because sometimes you can't, it's amazing what will happen in your life, what will happen with that person, what will happen with you and other people, if you have a forgiving spirit and let it go.
“The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.”
E.L. Doctorow (1931–2015) novelist, editor, professor
Time (26 June 2006)