Quote #10
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
More from Ralph Ellison
- Education is all a matter of building bridges.
- Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
- Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
- I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
- By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to hav…
- If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
- America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophec…
- Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.