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| Saturday, May 2, 2009 9:15PM | | | | Writing Into The Darkness | Tags: Novels, Marlon James, Jan Kjaerstad, Horacio Castellano Moya, Roxana Robinson, Noreen Tomassi, truth in fiction, , , , , ,
| | | Using words to talk about words is trickier than you might think when the topic is writing stirring, meaningful novels. There’s a mystery to the process, which perhaps is as it should be.
“The best part of a novel is what you can never express in words,” said Norwegian author Jan Kjaerstad, part of a panel of four award-winning, renowned, and very thoughtful novelists discussing Where The Truth Lies: A Conversation on the Art of Fiction. The best gift fiction can give its readers is the possibility of understanding human motivation beyond what he referred to as “darkness.”
Kentucky-born American author Roxana Robinson picked up that theme and pushed it further, noting that writers often write into their own personal darkness. “You’re part... | | | | | |
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