“She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.”
Source: The Hours
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American novelist and screenwriter 1952Related quotes
“Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.”
Source: Ransom
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“Morality and literature,” pp. 161-162
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)
Context: It is not only in literature that fiction generates immorality. It does it also in life itself. For the substance of our life is almost exclusively composed of fiction. We fictionalize our future, and, unless we are heroically devoted to truth, we fictionalize our past, refashioning it to our taste. We do not study other people; we invent what they are thinking, saying, and doing. Reality provides us with some raw material, just as novelists often take a theme from a news item, but we envelop it in a fog in which, as in all fiction, values are reversed, so that evil is attractive and good is tedious.
