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Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
-Walker Percy
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Fiction Doesn’t Tell Us Something We Don’t

Walker Percy
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
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Drive-bys want you to think that donald trump doesn't have a mind of his own. he's either doing what steve bannon tells him to do or he's either doing what jared kushner tells him to do or he's then doing what gary cohn tells him to do, and then sometimes he might do what ivanka trump tells him to do. they want you to believe he doesn't have a mind of his own, that he actually believes the last thing somebody tells him. i don't think that's how it happened.
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Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. one starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. i read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy i used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.
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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. emotion is really what fiction is all about. that's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. but if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. you can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. but fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.
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