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«A good subject must contain in itself something that sheds a light on our moral experience. If it is incapable of this expansion, this vital radiation, it remains, however showy a surface it presents, a mere irrelevant happening, a meaningless scrap of fact torn out of its context. Nor is it more than a half-truth to say that the imagination which probes deep enough can find this germ in any happening, however insignificant. The converse is true enough: the limited imagination reduces a great theme to its own measure. But the wide creative vision, though no fragment of human experience can appear wholly empty to it, yet seeks by instinct those subjects in which some phase of our common plight stands forth dramaticallyand typically, subjects which, in themselves, are a kind of summary or foreshortening of life’s disperse and inconclusive occurrences.» —Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Quote from: The Writing Of Fiction; see also the review by Roxane Gay in htmlgiant.

«A good subject must contain in itself something that sheds a light on our moral experience. If it is incapable of this expansion, this vital radiation, it remains, however showy a surface it presents, a mere irrelevant happening, a meaningless scrap of fact torn out of its context. Nor is it more than a half-truth to say that the imagination which probes deep enough can find this germ in any happening, however insignificant. The converse is true enough: the limited imagination reduces a great theme to its own measure. But the wide creative vision, though no fragment of human experience can appear wholly empty to it, yet seeks by instinct those subjects in which some phase of our common plight stands forth dramaticallyand typically, subjects which, in themselves, are a kind of summary or foreshortening of life’s disperse and inconclusive occurrences.»

—Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Quote from: The Writing Of Fiction; see also the review by Roxane Gay in htmlgiant.

Posted on December 19th, 2011
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