It’s amazing how much you can get away with that could be considered polemic as long as it’s funny. As soon as it ceases to be funny, your readers start feeling preached to and rebel.
– Lionel Shriver
Tag: feel
Quotable 395
The purpose of fiction is to affect rather than to convince the reader. Its object is to reach him through his senses rather than through his mind. The purpose of argumentation is to convince; the purpose of description is to present a picture; the purpose of exposition is to impart knowledge, ideas, facts: but the characteristic purpose of narrative in the fictional sense in which we are taking it here is to make the reader feel.
– Thomas H. Uzzell