Guy Davenport Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Guy Davenport quotes and sayings page 2 (writer). These are the last 4 out of 14 quotes we have.
“Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.”
“The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.”
“As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.”
“Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.”
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