Thinking Quotes by Fred D'Aguiar

Fred D'Aguiar

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

Laughter

Policy

Thinking

Fred D'Aguiar

I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don’t romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you’re suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you’ll learn some hard lessons.

Suffering

Thinking

Views

Fred D'Aguiar

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I’m most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can’t guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

Guarantees

Lessons

Thinking

Fred D'Aguiar

To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.

Character

Sneak In

Thinking

Fred D'Aguiar

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

Emotional

Fiction

Thinking

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Thinking Quotes by Fred D'Aguiar

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don’t romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you’re suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you’ll learn some hard lessons.

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I’m most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can’t guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

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