A Quote by Sol Luckman on beauty, metaphor, truth, real, reality, real world,...
The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn’t have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes real it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what’s commonly...
View ArticleA Quote by Sol Luckman on beginners luke, sol luckman, literary movement,...
Let’s begin a new literary movement. I don’t care what we call it. Let’s start writing novels for people who don't like novels. Because these days who can blame them? You can please all the people some...
View ArticleA Quote by Sol Luckman on fiction, robot, corporate world, education, excess,...
If we’re to avoid becoming fiction robots in a corporate world, we must stop adding to our educational excesses, eschew the assembly line of MFAs and bottom-line publishing houses, commit ourselves to...
View ArticleA Quote by Sol Luckman on literature, beginners luke, sol luckman, critics,...
Literature, at its best, and despite the recent attempts of critics, can never be murdered and dissected, as it’s an immortal yet organic thing, drawing on the richness and complexity of Experience yet...
View ArticleA Quote by Sol Luckman on beginners luke, imagination, imaginary, imaginal,...
I was sick to the bone of disappearing by degrees, dissolving into library walls, playing my sad little violin of loneliness as time’s invisible ink wrote out my meaningless days even as it erased...
View ArticleA Quote by Sol Luckman on beginners luke, the dark knight returns, batman,...
Reading The Dark Knight Returns had woken up something or someone inside me. It had woken up my own Dark Knight, I suppose, the part of me that yearned to take on the universe, walk on the wild side,...
View ArticleA Quote by Sol Luckman on verisimilitude, limitation, experimental,...
Years from now when verisimilitude is finally understood as a terribly limiting proposition, let our daringly experimental books (often self-published, often ignored by the mainstream) be remembered as...
View ArticleA Quote by Sol Luckman on beginners luke, herman melville, reality,...
Once in every generation, if we’re lucky, a character shows up who can teach us about reality because he’s more real than ourselves. Melville called such a character a “Drummond light” after the type...
View ArticleA Quote by Sol Luckman on identity, luke soloman, beginners luke, free novel,...
I wasn’t sure what was going on or what time it was or where I was or even, for that matter, who I was … but my gut told me something was terribly wrong. I opened my eyes slowly, as sensitive to light...
View ArticleA Quote by Sol Luckman on luke soloman, beginners luke, begging, poverty,...
I adopted a begging posture that suggested genteel poverty combined with a certain affable nonchalance. People found this irresistible. They lavished money on me. Within days I exceeded ten dollars an...
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