Author: Rodrico Fresán

Cites

• John Cheever (1)
  • IN: The Invented Part (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Writing is not crypto-autobiography, and it's not current events. I'm not writing my auto-biography, and I'm not writing things as they happen to me, with the exception of the use of details -- thunderstorms and that sort of thing. No, it's nothing that happened to me. It's a possibility. It's an idea.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Norman Maclean (1)
  • IN: The Invented Part (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature -- not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.
    FROM: USFS 1919: The Ranger, The Cook, and a Hole in the Sky, (1976), Short Story, US
• Geoff Dyer (1)
  • IN: The Invented Part (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event in your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories, case histories; what happened -- what actually happened to you and what you thought happened -- would be enough.
    FROM: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, (2009), Novel, UK
• Michael Ondaatje (1)
  • IN: The Invented Part (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There's a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your chracter. You will find in this way the path of your life. [...] You learn to alter your life. [...] Everything in plain sight.
    FROM: The Cat's Table, (2011), Novel, Sri Lanka/Canada
• Iris Murdoch (1)
  • IN: The Invented Part (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We see parts of things, we intuit whole things.
    FROM: Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, (1992), Book, Ireland
• Marcel Proust (1)
  • IN: The Invented Part (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Can I call this a novel?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• René Magritte (1)
  • IN: The Invented Part (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: This is not a pipe.
    FROM: NULL, (1929), Painting, Belgium