“The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.”
Introduction to The Best American Short Stories of 1984 (1984)
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John Updike240
American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009Related quotes
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Inner Space http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21400/Inner_Space <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) German mathematician
All thinking is, accordingly, formation of new mind masses.
Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
You Would Have Understood Me
“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Thought is not bred apart from experience or from inner surroundings.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- Manipulation and appreciation, p. 81 -->
Context: The sense of meaning is not born in ease and sloth. It comes after bitter trials, disappointments in the glitters, foundering, strandings. It is the marrow from the bone. There is no manna in our wilderness.
Thought is not bred apart from experience or from inner surroundings. Thinking is living, and no thought is bred in an isolated cell in the brain. No thought is an island.
“Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.”
Anne Rice (1941) American writer
