
If you start [in book] with telling people what they are supposed to feel and what they are supposed to experience it simply doesn’t work. Because it really has to come from the reader…
I think the book is going to be who you are. If you’re a person of faith that will come out in the book. It’s not something that you stick on or worry if you’re clear enough. Because the minute you start doing that you’ve stopped telling a story and started writing propaganda. I think propaganda has gotten a bad name; it simply means you have something you believe that you want to share. <…> But that’s different from a story, where you don’t start with an answer that you want to share: you start with a question that you need to explore. And you do that in the form of a story.
Источник: A Talk with Katherine Paterson http://ptpopcorn.com/index.php/2007/talk-with-paterson/. ptpopcorn.com (09.02.07).
If you start [in book] with telling people what they are supposed to feel and what they are supposed to experience it simply doesn’t work. Because it really has to come from the reader…
„Лучшие книги - это те, которые рассказывают тебе то, что ты уже знаешь.“
„История — это роман, в который верят, роман же — история, в которую не верят.“
„Это, конечно, не пропаганда, это чистая журналистика.“
О СМИ, занимающихся пропагандой.
из книги Дэвида Хофстеда «Audrey Hepburn: A Bio-bibliography» (1994)
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once.
„Зануда — это человек, который на вопрос: «Как дела?» — начинает рассказывать, как дела.“
«Так называемый человеческий род» (1922).
„Литература и пропаганда — это одно и то же.“