Vivian Gornick Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say

  Vivian Gornick

  Emotional, Plot, Stories

• Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

  Vivian Gornick

  Trying, Literature, Metaphor

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

  Vivian Gornick

  Once Upon A Time, Literature, Kind

  Source: www.believermag.com

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