Author: Jincy Willett

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• E. M. Forster (1)
  • IN: Amy Falls Down (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "The king died and then the queen died" is a story. "The king died, and then the queen died of grief is a plot." The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it. Consider the death of the queen. If it is in a story we say "and then?" If it is a plot we ask "why?"
    FROM: Aspects of the Novel, (1927), Book, UK
• H. Allen Smith (1)
  • IN: Amy Falls Down (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "God damn it," said Lewis, "I told you. I'm not in the business of exposing things. I'm a novelist. I write novels. I don't go around -- "
    FROM: NULL, (1930), Conversation, US