Phrase by 'Anne Michaels'
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I think there are all kinds of aspects to reality, to domestic reality, and why don't we just talk about them all?
Author: Anne Michaels - Canadian PoetWhy , Think , Reality , Talk
There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.
Author: Anne Michaels - Canadian PoetPeople , Live , Literature , Democracy
Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.
Author: Anne Michaels - Canadian PoetAlways , Moment , Way , Language
I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.
Author: Anne Michaels - Canadian PoetBeing , Myself , Reading , I Can
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
Author: Anne Michaels - Canadian PoetLife , Know , Believe , Facts
I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no matter where we come from, or who our parents are. It's not my province; it's ours. These questions concern us all.
Author: Anne Michaels - Canadian PoetStory , Parents , Matter , Questions
I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.
Author: Anne Michaels - Canadian PoetMe , Remember , Down , Child
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
Author: Anne Michaels - Canadian PoetYou , Me , Time , Difficult
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.
Author: Anne Michaels - Canadian PoetMoral , Feeling , Believe , Said
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.
Author: Anne Michaels - Canadian PoetIdeas , You , Reality , Emotional
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