and I’m not sure why.
The Daily Literary Quote is a widget on my Google homepage. They seem to have a few dozen quotes in rotation.
Today, from Milan Kundera: “A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.”
I like for its absurdity, and also because part of me agrees with it.
A few months ago I encountered another quote that appealed to me. I’m despondent now that I neglected to write it down. I even contacted the nice folks at ModeRoom Press to retrieve it, but – no luck. It had something to do with writing from the inside out versus writing from the outside in. That’s all I got. If you can tell me what I’m trying to think of, you’ll win my undying gratitude.
was it "journalism is writing from the outside in and poetry is writing from the inside out"?
I think that's right! Oddly, when I Google that, without quotation marks, nothing comes up. It's a good sentiment, even if it ends up being attributed to Anonymous.